[tor-relays] TCP: drop open request

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Fri Oct 25 04:10:23 UTC 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:43:42PM +0900, mett wrote:
> Since yesterday, the kern.log of the relay I'm running is flooded with 
> "TCP: drop open request from".
> 
> I first thought it was a kind of DDOS on our servers but it seems to
> be related to Tor (When I stop Tor, kernel doesn't
> complain anymore).
> 
> Does somebody have an idea of why this is happening and what to do to
> mitigate it?

What operating system, kernel, etc?

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9716 looks related
if you're in BSD-land.

--Roger



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