On 26 Jan 2016, at 01:12, TorOp AnonymizedDotIo1 torrelay@anonymized.io wrote:

Hi,

Over the weekend I started having those kind of error popping on my log at a very high rate (a few per seconds):

Jan 25 09:00:00.000 [warn] eventdns: Address mismatch on received DNS packet. Apparent source was xxx.237.192.xxx:61083

Apparent source is not my IP and is different at every error message. I restarted my relay and I have stopped happening. I am running my own local unbound DNS server.

Is it some kind of attack or simply an error that happened over the weekend? I have never seen it before.

This error is logged when Tor sends a DNS query to an address, but gets a reply back from a different address.

This could be an attack, or a misconfigured DNS server, or simply a multihomed DNS server.

Tim

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