Re: [tor-relays] SYN flooding on port 80. - how often does this ppear at exits usually ?

Hi,

Or your server can't eat all traffic or you are under attack time to time. Check this:

http://blog.dubbelboer.com/2012/04/09/syn-cookies.html

On 12 October 2015 at 16:00, Toralf FÃrster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote:

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Recently I realizedÂ these log messages

tor-relay ~ # zgrep SYN /var/log/kern*
/var/log/kern.log:Oct 11 13:43:47 tor-relay kernel: [132045.057945] TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.Â Check SNMP counters.
/var/log/kern.log-20150927.gz:Sep 22 08:05:43 tor-relay kernel: [47670.548282] TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.Â Check SNMP counters.
/var/log/kern.log-20151005.gz:Sep 28 11:06:32 tor-relay kernel: [576607.272239] TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.Â Check SNMP counters.
/var/log/kern.log-20151005.gz:OctÂ 2 08:04:21 tor-relay kernel: [911078.601891] TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.Â Check SNMP counters.
/var/log/kern.log-20151011.gz:OctÂ 8 11:35:23 tor-relay kernel: [1441827.102566] TCP: request_sock_TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.Â Check SNMP counters.

and do just wonder how often this is expected to appear in the mean a tor server and if there's something special to do in this case ?

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