[tor-relays] Sustained large spike in outbound traffic - what might be going on?

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Tue Dec 29 21:19:09 UTC 2015


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On 12/29/2015 12:53 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
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> I don't know of any other attack or request that amplifies outbound
> traffic via tor or otherwise, but there may be some.

I did experienced too a gap of incoming versus outgoing of about 30% and more few times in the past at an exit relay, having an advertised bandwidth of 8 MB/sec. That gap persists over a day or so and then vanished.

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