[tor-relays] Re: Authority Amplified Attack

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https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html?start=2026-06-01&end=2026-10-20&flag=HSDir
Same situation took place before august - drop of total relays with HSDir 
to just few hundreds. Looks like the attacker had a week off in the 
begining of august ;-)

Regards
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026, Logforme via tor-relays wrote:

> I run the relay 8F6A78B1EA917F2BF221E87D14361C050A70CCC3
>
> Like many relays mine has been under attack for a while now. Recently it has 
> however become worse. Because of the DirAuths.
>
> After having restarted the relay a few time in order to upgrade the tor 
> program in the vain hope there might be a fix for the attack, the attacker 
> now only have to spend a few hours every few days on my relay. The rest of 
> the time it is flagged as non-stable and gets hardly any traffic. Once the 
> DirAuths figure the relay is stable the flags return, and so does the attack. 
> And the DirAuths promptly removes the flags and we go another round around 
> the loop.
>
> If the torproject can't find a programmer to fix the actual issue can the 
> DirAuths at least relax the requirements for the stable flag?
>
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