On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:44:29PM +0000, mick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:07:59 +0000 > mick <m...@rlogin.net> allegedly wrote: > > > > I shut tor down while I investigated and when running nethogs I > > noticed a shed load of attempted connections to my tor port (443) from > > non-tor addresses. A snapshot is at > > http://rlogin.net/tor/incoming.png > > > > Anyone else seeing anything similar? I can't believe I'm the only node > > being poked. > > On further investigation, I think many of those addresses are likely > to be tor related, possibly clients attempting to join tor through my > node. > > How long does it take from the time a node is shut down to the point > where no-one will attempt to connect through it? > > Mick
Hi Mick, Technically clients will attempt to use your node until the majority of the directory authorities agree your node is no longer reachable (should not take more than a little over 1 hour, assuming I understand the code correctly) plus 3 hours (a client considers a consensus valid for at most 3 hours), so roughly 4 hours. However, because some clients have incorrectly set clocks, connections will most likely trickle in past this point. I think after 5 hours no valid clients should still try to connect. HTH, Matt _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays