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Re: [tor-relays] Network Scan through Tor Exit Node (Port 80) - PORTSCAN



On Wednesday 09 March 2011 03:20:03 Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
> On 3/9/11 3:35 AM, Robert Ransom wrote:
> We *really* need to find a technical way to be able to detect and block
> outgoing portscan from the TOR exit nodes.

How is the ISP detecting the portscan? Does it log failed connections? Does it 
look for lots of addresses accessed in a small IP address range?

On Wednesday 09 March 2011 04:19:54 Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
> And in such extremely finely tuned situation, block or
> strongly-rate-limit the traffic to the destination?

Rate-limiting the circuit (to one packet every 1 to 5 seconds) is something to 
try. We could divide the number of failed connections by (number of 
connection attempts +5), and if that goes above 50%, throttle the circuit.
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