[tor-relays] Abuse received for middle node (part of the curent problem)

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 09:53:09PM +0100, Olaf Grimm wrote:
> I have just received two abuse messages from ISP Scaleway Elements for
> two of my middle nodes. Until now I thought this was not possible.
> 
> No problem for me. Only here for your information.

I get periodic abuse complaints to my directory authority, from people
who think I am attacking them, when really what they are seeing is
connections from *their* users to *my* Tor relay.

Their crappy firewall software interprets the "syn ack" from my server
as being an outgoing connection attempt to them, and so they think they
need to complain to my hoster.

See one example that somebody else experienced here:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-May/018450.html

Keep fighting the good fight,
--Roger