[tor-relays] Upgrade your relay to 0.2.4.17-rc?

[tor-admin]

Updated torland family. Hope that the new version helps. One of the last 
messages before update to 0.2.4.17-rc:

Sep 05 21:06:29.000 [warn] Your computer is too slow to handle this many 
circuit creation requests! Please consider using the 
MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option or choosing a more restricted exit 
policy. [434930 similar message(s) suppressed in last 60 seconds] 

Because of this the number of exit connections dropped significantly to 
300-400. Before this DDOS the exit numbers were around 7000-10000.

Regards,

Torland

On Thursday 05 September 2013 06:54:57 Roger Dingledine wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just released 0.2.4.17-rc. Hopefully there will be debs of it soon.
> 
> It comes with a new feature:
>     - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake 
requests
>       with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
>       requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally 
starve
>       0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus 
parameter
>       "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
>       Implements ticket 9574.
> 
> So the more relays that upgrade to 0.2.4.17-rc, the more stable and 
fast
> Tor will be for 0.2.4 users, despite the huge circuit overload that the
> network is seeing.
> 
> Please consider upgrading. If you do, though, please also keep an eye
> on it -- it's possible we introduced some new bugs and the network will
> start dissolving once more relays move to the new version.
> 
> In my spare time I'm also working on a blog post to explain what's 
going
> on and what measures we're taking to keep things afloat.
> 
> Aren't distributed systems fun,
> --Roger
> 
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