Re: Declining traffic

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:16:57 -0400 Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 02:35:01PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>> I'm seeing declining traffic over the last few weeks, please see graph:
>> It dropped from a sustainted 2,5Mbps (or more) to about a fifth, with a
>> massive drop today.
>> 
>> I'm running
>> 
>> tor-0.2.1.25-1.el5.rf
>> 
>> on a 64Bit CentOS machine. Is there something going in the TOR network?
>
>My first thought is that you updated your openssl rpm in centos, which
>disabled tls renegotiation in yet another new way, and that broke your
>Tor relay. Meaning your relay still worked, but it would only do tls
>renegotiation with other people with centos's particular openssl twist.
>
>Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes the issue we hope:
>    - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
>      that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
>      backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
>      behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
>
     I hope that, in the future, openssl.org will make some effort to
coordinate such things with the various operating system developers in
a way that avoids turning the situation into such a cl*****f*** again.
It's obviously been a nightmare for you and the rest of the tor project,
and I'd bet heavily that the tor project is not the only one so affected.

>But we haven't yet put out a stable release that includes that patch.
>
>So if you upgraded to the latest 0.2.2.x-alpha to get the fixes for other
>bugs, you would get the fix for this bug too. Let us know if it works.
>
     Are there any ideas floating around yet as to why tor doesn't work
with openssl 1.0.0?


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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