[tor-relays] Reminder: don't run transparent proxies at exits

[eric gisse]

Yes :(

1) Blanket caching on port 80 is mostly fine, but not completely due
to squid dropping/erroring on non-http traffic. Not acceptable.
2) I've been unable to find a way to pass non-http traffic in a reliable way.
3) netfilter inspection to determine protocol ends with the layer7
filter project which appears to dead. I might be able to nudge the
inspection capabilities up to current 3.x kernels but that's iffy, but
either way it isn't currently functional or even functional-adjacent.
4) A *gobsmackingly large* (40k+) amount of CLOSE_WAIT connections to
squid gets setup over a period few hours, and I'm at a bit of a loss
as to why.

I've never had this problem before with previous personal or
professional usage of squid...

This breaks the fuck out of everything anyway after a few hours.

I am unmoved by the philosophical considerations. But there are
serious practical ones that I didn't fully think through. So, the
puppet manifest for squid gets put away again and the iptables rule is
removed until I can solve the above problems.

I'm keeping DNS caching though. DNS gets to be pretty slow, as seen
from this segment of the bind statistics output:

              283152 queries with RTT < 10ms
             1724419 queries with RTT 10-100ms
             1006967 queries with RTT 100-500ms
               60675 queries with RTT 500-800ms
               48536 queries with RTT 800-1600ms
                2961 queries with RTT > 1600ms

I assume everyone's ok with that, right? :p



On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Nusenu
<BM-2D8wMEVgGvY76je1WXNPfo8SrpZt5yGHES at bitmessage.ch> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Nusenu
>>> Are you saying you are routing exit traffic through a transparent
>>> squid http proxy?
>>>
>>> If that is the case, please do not interfere with exit traffic in
>>> any way.
>
> eric gisse:
>> Why?
>
> Is your exit breaking non-HTTP protocolls on destination port 80?
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