On 31 Jan 2018, at 05:54, Quintin tor-admin@portaltodark.world wrote:
nusenu wrote:
If your hoster suspends your server if you exceed 10k concurrent connections I'm afraid it is probably not suitable for an exit relay
The response from the hoster was:
Your server should not have over 20,000 unreplied connections. This is a sign of abuse.
with "unreplied connections" they might actually mean connection _attempts_ and not actual connections (I assume they talk about outbound and not inbound traffic). And they might take it as a sign for "you are probably running a portscanner" (which usually results in lots of connection attempts - TCP SYN packets without replies).
It is probably still the best solution to change provider - if you are still considering it.
What about the exit node causes such abormally high conntrack sessions?
It is normal for exits to have over 10,000 connections:
- 7000 to relays, and
we are about to fall bellow 6k concurrently running relays https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html