Hi,
My advice is to try to ask them is they are OK to let you a second chance to let your relay running. Tell them that if such a big attack happen again so you shut it down and you don't disturb them anymore with it.
Also, a "Good Point" to get if it's not already done, set your reverse DNS to something that hackers will instantly recognize (torproxy.something.readme ...), it reduces the risk of DDoS problems (those who drives DDoS attacks often know what is Tor, may be some of them are using it everyday). Tell you ISP if you do so, in order to say them that you improved somethong to reduce the risk for it to happen again.
On one of my relays, enabling that after month without, made a very very big difference (several DDoS per month -> nothing now).
If your relay have been running for several month now without any problem, and if most of the DDoS attacks should be smaller that the one you got, may be they can be OK for a second chance!
Good luck ;)
----- Mail original ----- De: "Christian Burkert" post@cburkert.de À: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Envoyé: Vendredi 26 Décembre 2014 12:32:19 Objet: [tor-relays] Possible DDoS
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Hi *,
I'm running a non-exit Tor node for a few months now on a virtual server hosted in a professional datacenter.
That's the node: https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/4C246EA9C950B872FD77F761CEAAB41D93D9764...
Yesterday, December 25th, the support wrote me, that my server is under a DDoS attack with 2GBit/s lasting over more than two hours. So, the hoster black holed my traffic to protect the other customers.
The hoster wanted to know which services I'm running and told me that if I continue running Tor and further attacks will happen, then I would have to bear the costs. Eventually, I took down the Tor node to avoid further confrontation.
Now I seek for your interpretation of this event: - - Has there been more recent incidents against Tor nodes? - - How can I investigate it? - - How should one react to a hoster? I mean they could have made up the whole thing...
Looking forward to your comments Chris
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