One of my tor guard relays is a medium size VPS operating in the Czech Republic. It's been up and stable for several years. Several weeks ago I was notified that my VPS was a source of UDP DoS traffic. It was shut down. Logs showed no intrusions.
I installed a different instance of linux, changed my SSH port, added fail2ban and even installed clamav. I did not make changes to the tor exit policy. Then, this week I received the following:
"Hello, surveillance system detected a disproportionate outgoing DoS traffic on your VPS torexitcz and then our network under a DDoS attack. Your server torexitcz has been stopped. This is another problem with your VPS. Your service will be terminated. Thanks for understanding."
Can anyone offer an opinion as to how my relay was used for DoS? How can I avoid this in the future? My goal, as always is to provide stable nodes to the tor network while protecting myself and my VPS supplier.
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