Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc:
Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many circuit creation requests! Please consider using the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit policy. [434930 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds]
Because of this the number of exit connections dropped significantly to 300-400. Before this DDOS the exit numbers were around 7000-10000.
Regards,
Torland
On Thursday 05 September 2013 06:54:57 Roger Dingledine wrote:
Hi folks,
I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon.
It comes with a new feature: - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake
requests
with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally
starve
0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus
parameter
"NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to. Implements ticket 9574.So the more relays that upgrade to 0.2.4.17-rc, the more stable and
fast
Tor will be for 0.2.4 users, despite the huge circuit overload that the network is seeing.
Please consider upgrading. If you do, though, please also keep an eye on it -- it's possible we introduced some new bugs and the network will start dissolving once more relays move to the new version.
In my spare time I'm also working on a blog post to explain what's
going
on and what measures we're taking to keep things afloat.
Aren't distributed systems fun, --Roger
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