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

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:36:58PM +0100, Chris Whittleston wrote:
> 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...

It does help! It helps clients a lot.

The change is that your relay now prioritizes requests from 0.2.4 clients,
and then spends whatever time it has left handling requests from 0.2.3
clients.

--Roger