[tor-relays] Guard flag and some irregularities

[Sebastian Urbach]

On December 6, 2014 9:41:34 PM Rafael Rodriguez <rafaelr at icctek.com> wrote:

Hi,

> https://atlas.thecthulhu.com/#details/48ADFCC561402D7EBB1CDE233F206B01D8FA0765
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> 1- Is it ok for the Guard flag to come and go so often? I do not see
> anything wrong with my relay and it is pushing up to 12MBs at times.

>From what i can see the numbers are way lower than that. Recently the 
criterias to qualify as a guard changed, i assume that you drop out of the 
guard position because you don't make the cut all the time. If im not 
mistaken the number of guards dropped roughly 50 % after the changes were 
implemented.

> Most of the time, my relay pushes between 3-7MB/s constantly and that's
> fine. But there are occasions in which I see it spike and send out as
> much as 12MB/s

I'm struggling with the numbers, if you take a look at the graphs you are 
not getting this much traffic. Maybe your system is under attack (DoS, 
DDoS) ? It does not look like it's regular Tor traffic ...

-- 
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations

Sebastian Urbach

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