[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index]

Re: [tor-relays] Bots, love 'em or hate 'em?



Just thoughts: To throttle how about assign twisted consensus weight to outdated versions? Highest consensus weight to slowest relays and vice versa? Wouldnt they overload/throttle themselfes nicely?

 
Am Sonntag, 23. August 2015 10:24 schrieb tor-server-creator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
 
Would be interesting to have an outdate-consensus handling deprecated relays just for statistics or maybe also to set them all to flagged as bad or throttle them somehow?

 
Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2015 17:11 schrieb starlight.2015q3@xxxxxxxxxxx:
 
My relay says it receives about 50k v1/v2/v3
connections each day to the 60k v4
connections that come in.

"Entry-ips" says it has about 35k guard-
clients.  Blutmagie says there are no
pre-0.2.4 relays talking anything other
than v4.

So I'm left thinking that 95% or more of the
bandwidth consumption and client count is from
crusty old botnet bots running ancient versions
of the Tor daemon.

But all that bot traffic creates a lot
of statistical "background noise," and
so may be providing a service in making
it more difficult for advanced adversaries
to perform traffic correlation analysis.

Thoughts anyone?

_______________________________________________
tor-relays mailing list
tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
_______________________________________________
tor-relays mailing list
tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays