[anti-censorship-team] Need to increase number of tor instances on snowflake-01 bridge, increased usage since yesterday

Linus Nordberg linus at torproject.org
Wed Sep 28 09:31:05 UTC 2022


David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:40:48 -0600:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 08:22:21PM +0200, Linus Nordberg wrote:
>> David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote
>> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:54:53 -0600:
>> > I checked the number of sockets connected to the haproxy frontend port,
>> > thinking that we may be running out of localhost 4-tuples. It's still in
>> > bounds (but we may have to figure something out for that eventually).
>> >
>> >     # ss -n | grep -c '127.0.0.1:10000\s*$'
>> >     27314
>> >     # sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range
>> >     net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 15000    64000
>> 
>> Would more IP addresses and DNS round robin work?
>
> By more IP addresses you mean more localhost IP addresses, I guess?

My confusion was strong at that time yesterday. I mixed up 4-tuples on
our (only) externally reachable address with 4-tuples on localhost
addresses. Please ignore and thanks for clarifying.

Getting rid of extor should lower the need for localhost 4-tuples,
shouldn't it?


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