[tor-relays] Repeated warning in an exit relay

[torix at protonmail.com]

That's what I concluded after finding the ticket, but helpful to a new exit relay operator to have this confirmed.

--torix


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On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9:10 AM, s7r <s7r at sky-ip.org> wrote:

> livak wrote:
>
> > The relay repeatedly casts the following message:
> > Sep 18 08:19:58.000 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR
> > circuit with purpose Acting as rendevous (pending)
> > What does it mean ?
> > Livak
>
> We know about it for quite some time and investigating. It is safe to
> ignore it for the moment. No sense to open a ticket about it on trac as
> it's already there.
>
> It occurs on Exit relays. The faster the Exit, the more often you get
> it. Here is one of mine:
>
> ~$ cat /var/log/tor/tor.log | grep rendezvous | wc -l
> 386
>
> only in the last ~27 hours.
>
> For the time being we don't think it's a security risk nor something
> that can crash relays. But at least we are 100% sure that we are not
> talking about just one or two misconfigured client implementations out
> there that sends duplicate ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells on the same circuit.