Re: [tor-relays] Botnet issues and upgrading to 0.2.4.x

[Dan Staples <danstaples@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it would make a difference. When my relay is experiencing 
a circuit-creation storm, I've restarted Tor, and even stopped it for a 
few minutes, but as soon as it comes back online, it gets slammed 
again. Only leaving it offline for an hour or so and then turning it 
back on seems to mitigate the problem.

On Mon 14 Oct 2013 06:11:10 PM EDT, Chris Whittleston wrote:
> Do you think it might help to restart tor every 24 hours or so using
> cron Dan - or would that adversely affect the network too much/not
> actually help?
>
> On 14 Oct 2013 22:32, "Dan Staples" <danstaples@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:danstaples@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     In my experience, setting the bandwidth advertising options does
>     nothing to stop the "storms" of circuit creation requests. It *will*
>     affect the *average* bandwidth used by your relay, but every once in a
>     while, I'll still get circuit-creation storms that completely
>     overwhelm
>     my RPi and knock it offline (I'm talking continuous 3Mbps
>     bandwidth use
>     for several hours when MaxAdvertisedBandwidth is 200 kbps). It seems
>     from past discussions on the mailing list, this is still an unresolved
>     issue.
>
>     On Mon 14 Oct 2013 04:43:50 PM EDT, Chris Whittleston wrote:
>     > Thanks Logforme - yeah I was trying that before I sent the first
>     email
>     > in this chain, but maybe I didn't go low enough with the advertised
>     > bandwidth. When the 0.2.4 compilation is done (it's still chugging
>     > along) I'll try going lower and see if it helps.
>     >
>     > Chris
>     >
>     >
>     > On 14 October 2013 21:38, Logforme <m7527@xxxxxx
>     <mailto:m7527@xxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:m7527@xxxxxx <mailto:m7527@xxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 2013-10-14 22:01, Chris Whittleston wrote:
>     >     > I see - so I'll probably still see the problem with a huge
>     number of
>     >     > circuits being created after I've finished building 0.2.4.
>     Is there
>     >     > any way to limit this, I'm guessing reducing the bandwidth
>     wouldn't
>     >     > actually help? I guess I'll look into how much further I can
>     >     overclock
>     >     > the CPU...
>     >     Only option that I know of is to reduce the bandwidth you
>     advertise to
>     >     the network. The more bandwidth you advertise the more circuits
>     >     the tor
>     >     network will throw at your relay. The following flags in the
>     torrc
>     >     file
>     >     can be used (with my current understanding of them):
>     >     BandwidthRate : The max bandwidth you provide over a long period
>     >     of time
>     >     BandwidthBurst : The max bandwidth you provide over a short
>     period
>     >     of time
>     >     MaxAdvertisedBandwidth : The max bandwidth you tell the tor
>     >     network about
>     >     So you can set BandwidthRate to the real max you want to
>     provide and
>     >     then set MaxAdvertisedBandwidth to a number low enough to
>     prevent
>     >     circuit overload.
>     >
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