I run the relay 8F6A78B1EA917F2BF221E87D14361C050A70CCC3
I have tried to mitigate the current DoS by implemented connection limits in my iptables using Toralf's template: More than 25 connection during 10 mins and you end up on my naughty list. Lots of connection attempts from the naughty list dropped but still my relay gets "overloaded"
However, I have noticed that a few relays also end up on the naughty list, and I wonder how that can happen. My understanding is that a relay will only open 1 connection to another relay so should therefore never end up on the list. Correct?
D767979FE4C99D310A46EC49037E9FE7E3F64E9D is a particularly frequent naughty boy. Maybe these relays disconnect and reconnect to my relay frequently due to network issues (effect from the DoS?) or from not having enough connections available on the router?
I guess my real question is if these connections are legit and I'm hurting the Tor network by using connection limits?