[tor-relays] Exit node move from Win to LInux

Gordon Morehouse gordon at morehouse.me
Sun Aug 18 17:00:40 UTC 2013


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var:
> When the relay starts our Internet goes down. Its more like some
> DNS problem but i cant point the finger on it. The connection is
> still there but he need a lot of time to resolve the names.
> 
> Is this a overkill for our router?

My first question is, what kind of router are you using, and does the
problem go away (for a short time or a long time) if you reset the
router?  I am assuming a consumer-type router.

Sometimes a lot of connections can overload consumer routers, this has
definitely happened to mine with both Tor and Bittorrent.

* The router can become overloaded and respond slowly or drop packets
* The connection table can fill up, allowing existing connections to
  work fine, but new connections fail intermittently (web pages half
  load, DNS gets weird, etc)

Some versions of Windows limited # of connections per second or
something like that, where as Linux does not.

Aside from all the logs and config settings the other people on the
list asked for - what make and model of router are you using, and are
you running anything like OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato on it?

Best,
- -Gordon M.



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