On 01/15/2014 07:00 AM, Anupam Das wrote:
Hi Alex,
We are very sorry to hear about the problems our measurements caused. Up until yesterday, we had received no reports of them triggering these kinds of responses from providers. However, yesterday we heard a very similar story from another relay operator using Hetzner.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the tor-relays community. We have also updated our FAQ to inform contributors about this potential problem.
Also, we'd like to help others avoid this while still providing useful measurements, if possible. Have you gotten any feedback from Hetzner about what rule was triggered and maybe how to avoid it? Do you have any ideas about how one might stay below their radar? If it is something simple like reducing the measurement rate that would be a great option to prevent problems while still providing valuable data about the the Tor network.
We do still hope that most relay operators will be willing to give this project a shot. We have received data from over 90 separate IP addresses and have gotten 2 negative reports so far, although certainly the issues could be more widespread without us being aware. We don't want to add to the headaches that can result from running a Tor relay, but on the other hand Tor relay operators are probably pretty adept at handling this kind of stuff.
Thanks
Anupam
Hi again,
Anupam I wish I knew how to run the script and avoid any complaints from Hetzner. Unfortunately Hetzner didn't give us any helpful info. We even asked them explicitly if rate limiting would be a solution, but there was no answer on that.
On 01/15/2014 02:20 PM, Paul Görgen wrote:
Finally scamper was defunct, presumably due to being stopped two times, so I restarted the whole Trusted Tor Traceroutes script on monday with PPS=200 (reducing the traceroute rate to 1/5 of the default value). So far I did not receive any machine generated abuse reports. I assume the packet rate is now below the limit of what the monitoring thinks is a netscan. I will report back if I should receive another abuse report connected to the experiment.
Paul's answer may indicate that imposing a rate limit to the script's requests might do the trick.
Greetings. Alex