<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div>On 17 Oct 2017, at 21:43, tor <<a href="mailto:tor@anondroid.com">tor@anondroid.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>> There's a bug in 0.3.0 and later that causes clients to fetch<br></div><div>> microdescriptors from fallbacks. So fallbacks (and authorities)<br></div><div>> will have extra load until that's fixed.<br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23862">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23862</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Makes sense. The relay can't keep up with the extra load. It's basically a DDoS. It's gone into this state 4 times over the past ~ 48 hours.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I doubt this bug is the cause if it's just happened recently.</div><div>It's more likely that your relay is the HSDir for some popular</div><div>onion service. Or a genuine DDoS.</div><div><br></div><div>Can't your provider support that many connections?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>> I think Tor LTS / 0.2.9 is in Debian stable:<br></div><div>> <a href="http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/stable/">http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/stable/</a><br></div><div>> <br></div><div>> I've opened a ticket to add LTS to the Debian repository instructions:<br></div><div>> <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23897">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23897</a><br></div><div>><br></div><div>> I wouldn't recommend upgrading to 0.3.0 or later, there are stability issues<br></div><div>> on some clients, and maybe relays.<br></div><div>> <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21969">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21969</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks the info. Unfortunately I upgraded to 0.3.1.7 before reading this (it didn't help), and can't figure out how to obtain 0.2.9.12 from the repos. I've tried these repos:<br></div><div><br></div><div> deb <a href="http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org">http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org</a> trusty main<br></div><div> deb <a href="http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org">http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org</a> jessie main<br></div><div> deb <a href="http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org">http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org</a> stretch main<br></div><div><br></div><div>All of them seem to only offer 0.3.1.7, but I'm not sure I'm looking in the right places or querying apt in the right way.<br></div><div><br></div><div>A static link to a signed dpkg (for 0.2.9.12) would be fine for the moment, if anyone knows of one.</div></div></blockquote><br><div>There's 0.2.9 nightly, but I don't know if we have an 0.2.9-release build.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>