[tor-relays] Botnet issues and upgrading to 0.2.4.x

[Chris Whittleston]

Aha - makes sense, I'll just build it myself. Thanks for the quick response.

So - the new handshake in 0.2.4.x doesn't help with the ongoing issues? On
that page I linked it was suggested it might...

Chris


On 14 October 2013 20:33, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:26:52PM +0100, Chris Whittleston wrote:
> > So I just started running a non-exit relay on a Raspberry Pi, and have
> hit
> > a problem where it seems huge numbers of circuits are being created which
> > overwhelms the system and can cause tor to crash. I read here (
> > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients)
> > that upgrading to 0.2.4.x might help with this
>
> No, 0.2.4.x means that you make things better for users, but alas it
> does not magically make your relay receive fewer circuit create requests.
>
> >, so I followed the
> > instructions here:
> >
> > https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development
>
> Read the bold words on that page that start with "Raspbian is not Debian."
>
> > And ran apt-get update, apt-get upgrade to get the latest version which
> > turned out to be 0.2.4.11-alpha-1~wheezy+1
> >
> > There seems to be a problem with this though as when the install finishes
> > (or when I try to restart tor), I get this error:
> >
> > pi at torberrypi /etc/tor $ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart
> > /etc/init.d/tor: line 111:  9701 Illegal instruction     $DAEMON
> > $VERIFY_ARGS > /dev/null
> > [FAIL] Checking if tor configuration is valid ... failed!
> > /etc/init.d/tor: line 111:  972
> > https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian#development4 Illegal instruction
> > $DAEMON $VERIFY_ARGS 1>&2
> >
> > Tor is not starting and I'm unsure how to proceed - help appreciated! :)
>
> You might like
>
> http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/242/how-to-run-tor-on-raspbian-on-the-raspberry-pi
>
> --Roger
>
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