Hi
Sorry, but I'm going to vent a little bit. I'm not a network specialist, so 11 days ago I sent the following email to this mailing list asking for help because two of my Tor exit relays were completely frozen and I was unable to put them online again.
According to https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/3B85067588C3F017D5CCF7D8F65B5... the relay is back since 1-2 days, good. Exiting to port 22 might lead to a lot of complaints ending at your ISP or yourself. Default SSH.
Nobody answered, not even a comment. No wait, there was one person
Unfortunately that happens from time to time. Thanks for your good report. Did you check https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/ for the bug you reported?
- very active on this mailing list recently - who sent me an email personally to tell me that I was an idiot (referring to what, I
don't know) who should kill himself. Adding furthermore that if I didn't commit suicide within 72 hours, he would personally come to my house and kill me with a Glock 9 mm. Fun stuff, very disturbing.
Nobody should read or write something like that. Makes me sad.
Anyway, no serious answers, someone calling me an idiot: I tried to look as best as I could at what I did wrong. Couldn't find
Again, nobody should read or write such.
anything. My only available solution was to rebuild completely my server, something I wanted to do for a while because of other undesired quirks that were bothering me with my setup. I knew it would take a long time - which I didn't really have - but I finally finished my new setup yesterday. (Don't look for 25FC41154DCB2CAE3ABD74A8DFCD5B90D2CFFD57 or the bridge, they have been shut down for the moment.)
3B85067588C3F017D5CCF7D8F65B5881B7D4C97C is actually running
Today, I read a line from Chris Endiku-6 saying: "Thereâs something going on for a while and I havenât seen any mentions of it." The exact problem I mentioned! He says it goes "as early as Dec.23"; my problem goes to Dec 18 as shown in my previous email. Also, not mentioned in my previous email, before I renewed my setup, my tor-ddos firewall rules (I use the ones from Endiku-6) had blocked about 5 times more IP than usual - if that can be useful information to anyone.
Yeah, those things are the spices in our dish. Not sure yet if this is an attack. I observe it too and investigate on my end. Trying to understand the complex vector.
I still would like to know how to restart such a relay, if this happens again in the future - other than reinstalling the entire server, that is.
Those are my questions too :) . Case by case and issue by issue.
Stay save out there!