Hi everybody

Tor relay load increase is going on.

1) Not normal: Some relays see much more circuits (ie the normal number of circuits was about 15-20k and is 100k-400k today).

2) Not normal: Fallbacks receive extensive use today. We are writing too much.

Am 09.11.2018 um 17:17 schrieb starlight.2018q2@binnacle.cx:

For the last year a bot of some kind has loaded Fallback Directory relays with excessive directory document requests. Some detail can be found in ticket #27921 at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27921.

To determine if your relay is affected, look the relay up in https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html, click the 6-Month history tab, and examine the graph for significantly higher "write bytes per second" relative to "read bytes per second".

I find this annoying (since I pay for the wasted bandwidth) and came up with a one-line hack that mitigates the abuse without impairing the usefulness of the DIR service to normal relays and clients. If you compile your daemon from source and are interested contact me directly for the patch.

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/ 1AE039EE0B11DB79E4B4B29CBA9F752864A0259E A2E6BB5C391CD46B38C55B4329C35304540771F1 B86137AE9681701901C6720E55C16805B46BD8E3

3) Not normal: https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-rend-relayed-cells.html?start=2017-01...