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Re: The status and future of Mixminion network



On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:01 +0200, tainaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Len,
> 
> > We're definitely seeing an attempted DOS attack against the
> > Mixmaster network [...] Perhaps the attack is against both
> > networks?
> 
> I cannot confirm this for the mixminion node tainaron. While
> there has been an increased rate of messages some two weeks ago
> with approx. 150 packets/hour for two days, I'd hardly call this
> a serious attack. Usual rate is less than 20 packets/hour, most
> of which I attribute to pingers.

I saw raising outgoing queues tha tipically kill the node
 when arriving to 20-30 Mb. This for 4 different nodes,
 requiring cleaning & restart of daemon

have a good day.   Marco

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