Thx for the wisdom ;-) On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 at 00:09 teor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 4 Jan 2018, at 09:52, r1610091651 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi teor > > > > Thanks for the reply. I'm not having issues with my relay, and I've seen > the mail about extra users indeed. Just an observation, as I've just > noticed few waves of these in last couple of hours. The start very abruptly > and end just as well. > > Not an expert, but I find it statistically significant to receive so > many connections (499 for one /24) form a single subnet to one specific > middle node. > > Unless that can be explained. > > If they are connecting to middle nodes directly, and handling consensus > weights badly, they could be misconfigured or experimental Tor clients. > Or there are bugs in some Tor versions that cause small guard weights, > even for non-guards. (Or they could be Tor2web or Single Onion Service > clients.) > > A consensus weight of 1000 gets you a probability of about 0.003%. > So if there are 1 million new clients, ignoring the Guard flag, we would > expect 30*N of them to connect to your relay, where N is the number of > entry nodes each client chooses. > > Recent clients that have stable connections have 2 active guards. > Older clients may have 3 active guards. > A client that fails lots of connections has a large number of active > guards. > (Recent clients try to limit this number. Older clients do not.) > > So having 17 active guards is not unreasonable. > (It's a bug in Tor, but it's not unreasonable.) > This would lead to you seeing ~500 connections at your relay. > > T > > -- > Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) > > teor2345 at gmail dot com > PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B > ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n > xmpp: teor at torproject dot org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
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