Roger Dingledine wrote:
Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
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- Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
Is there a bug report about excessive log flooding?Feb 01 04:02:32.473 [warn] Failing because we have 1016 connections already. Please raise your ulimit -n. Feb 01 04:02:32.860 [warn] Failing because we have 1016 connections already. Please raise your ulimit -n. Feb 01 04:02:35.847 [notice] accept failed: Too many open files. Dropping incoming connection. Feb 01 04:02:35.847 [notice] accept failed: Too many open files. Dropping incoming connection.
Raising ulimit -n is not an option for all of us. What is needed is a config option to limit number of connections and limit the logging. In a couple of hours there will be 3 gigabytes of log. This makes it possible to DoS a tor-node.
Regards, Jari Turkia