For your firewall settings, you will find everything you need here: https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-ddos/
It is the common setting for most Tor operators. Although, I don't think it is the source of your problem and I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens repeatedly. The log in "/var/log/syslog" might give you some helpful hints. Denny On 12/07/2023 10:19 PM Mulloch94 via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote .. > Greetings, I was directed to this relay subscription by the owner. I've > recently > started my own relay and everything has went smooth for the first few days. > Then > the relay mysteriously went offline for a period of 8-9 hours. Happened while > I > was sleeping I think, but any rate it came back on after I restarted the tor > daemon > and rebooted the server. I'm starting to think my firewall configurations > might > have been the culprit, even though I ran a very rudimentary setup. Basically > just: > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport <my SSH> -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9050 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT > -A INPUT -j DROP > > Default ACCEPT on OUTPUT > > My ORPort is on 443, so I don't see how this could be interfering. I noticed > my > server reboot got rid of all my rules, so I'm thinking that could've been the > issue. > If so, what other ports should I add? Do I even need a firewall for the relay? > I don't do anything else with that server, so If it doesn't need a firewall to > stay secure I won't use one. One more thing, I had a flag on my relay that > said > I needed to "update the descriptor." It went away after rebooting my server as > well, could that been the issue? > > Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email.
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