[tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-27 Thread Greg W
I turned on some logging on my firewall today to help troubleshoot and issue and noticed a load of connections from external addresses to port 9050 on my exit node. I don't think that should be publicly accessible. Am I wrong about it being publicly accessible and does anyone else see lots of

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-28 Thread Greg W
be sending some abuse emails and writing a new fail2ban rule! Thanks, Greg On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:39:55PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2014-02-27 23:12, Greg W wrote: I turned on some logging on my firewall today

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-02-28 Thread Greg W
Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:22:10AM -0600, Greg W wrote: Roger, You've confirmed my thoughts. I suspected that some people were bulk scanning relays/exits looking for open proxies too which is why I was curious if any other operators were seeing this. Thus

Re: [tor-relays] Are zealous connections to directory port common?

2014-03-14 Thread Greg W
What are the IPs connecting to you? I've been watching my firewall logs here recently and see several hosts from several distinct subnets consistently trying to connect to TOR related ports. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 5:50 AM, I beatthebasta...@inbox.com wrote: One of mine is being DDOSed today.

Re: [tor-relays] External connections to port 9050

2014-03-24 Thread Greg W
It is firewalled. I should have said connection attempts in my first email. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Tora Tora Tora t...@allthatnet.com wrote: On 02/28/2014 11:14 AM, Greg W wrote: Are you suggesting that the IP's making the connections are potentially exit nodes (they're not, I've