Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-11 Thread teor
> On 9 Nov 2018, at 20:18, nusenu wrote: > > teor: >> 1. If your exit's DNS fails, it will reject all exit requests in its >> descriptor. > > are you saying that > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21989 > is already implemented and released in an alpha version? This ticket is

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-09 Thread Toralf Förster
On 11/9/18 12:43 AM, teor wrote: > 2. If you reject enough IP addresses in your exit policy: > > If your exit blocks enough /8 networks, then its exit policy summary becomes > reject all. > > If the exit policy summary is too long, then it is truncated to a list of > accept ports. (That doesn't

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-09 Thread nusenu
teor: > 1. If your exit's DNS fails, it will reject all exit requests in its > descriptor. are you saying that https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21989 is already implemented and released in an alpha version? the affected relays show 0% failure rate at Arthur's DNS check page

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread teor
Hi, There are two likely possibilities here: > On 9 Nov 2018, at 06:17, Toralf Förster wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 11/8/18 9:12 PM, nusenu wrote: >>> 2018-11-06 21:00 UTC >> are you sure this is UTC? >> > ick, it was 21:00 CET (the dropdown may even started at 20:00 CET), but > obvious

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread Toralf Förster
On 11/8/18 9:12 PM, nusenu wrote: >> 2018-11-06 21:00 UTC > are you sure this is UTC? > ick, it was 21:00 CET (the dropdown may even started at 20:00 CET), but obvious it was an hour later >I did not look at the underlying descriptor data but onionoo data suggests that >an exit policy change

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread nusenu
>> can you give an absolute datetime for when the amount of connections started >> to drop? > > 2018-11-06 21:00 UTC are you sure this is UTC? >>> IPv4 Exit Policy Summary >>> reject >>> 1-65535 >> did that change? did it change at the same time? > > This I realized today - didn'

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread Toralf Förster
On 11/8/18 8:22 PM, nusenu wrote: > can you give an absolute datetime for when the amount of connections started > to drop? > are these numbers for each tor instance or for both together? (since they run > on the same box) > (-mm-dd hh:mm UT 2018-11-06 21:00 UTC (I do have the sysstat

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread nusenu
Toralf Förster: > I do wonder why 2 exit relays (at the same IP address) dropped down > from about 8,000 connections to about 1,000 connections after exactly > 1 month + 2 hours after they were installed. can you give an absolute datetime for when the amount of connections started to drop? are

Re: [tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread Toralf Förster
On 11/8/18 7:57 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: > I do wonder why 2 exit relays (at the same IP address) dropped down from > about 8,000 connections to about 1,000 connections after exactly 1 month + 2 > hours after they were installed. Hhm, is this tghe reason? : /tmp/info.log:Nov 08 20:08:57.000

[tor-relays] # of connections of a exit relay dropped down by about 90% exactly after 1 month after installation time

2018-11-08 Thread Toralf Förster
I do wonder why 2 exit relays (at the same IP address) dropped down from about 8,000 connections to about 1,000 connections after exactly 1 month + 2 hours after they were installed. Furthermore metrics.t.o shows: IPv4 Exit Policy Summary reject 1-65535 It is a hardened Gentoo with