[tor-relays] TOR Metrics showing relay as down but logs show it is apparently active

Tor Geheimschreiber tor.geheimschreiber at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 14:40:07 UTC 2022


Not sure if this is the correct list on which to ask but a new node 
created just over 7 days ago is now

being shown on Tor Metrics (atlas.torproject.org) as being down. However 
local logs show heartbeat

activity and some directory activity. A port scan of the IP address shows:

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Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-01-05 14:22 GMT
Nmap scan report for [redacted]
Host is up (0.018s latency).
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT     STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp   filtered ssh
8085/tcp open     unknown
9001/tcp open     tor-orport

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.27 seconds

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/var/log/tor/notices.log shows:

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Jan 05 00:00:34.000 [notice] Tor 0.4.6.9 opening new log file.
Jan 05 02:45:49.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 6 days 8:42 
hours, with 3189 circuits open. I've sent 337.09 GB and received 332.67 
GB. I've received 64461 connections on IPv4 and 13628 on IPv6. I've made 
106191 connections with IPv4 and 36300 with IPv6.
Jan 05 02:45:49.000 [notice] While not bootstrapping, fetched this many 
bytes: 104491070 (server descriptor fetch); 5940 (server descriptor 
upload); 11006113 (consensus network-status fetch); 1211313 
(microdescriptor fetch)
Jan 05 02:45:49.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 
632/632 TAP, 172332/172332 NTor.
Jan 05 02:45:49.000 [notice] Since startup we initiated 0 and received 0 
v1 connections; initiated 0 and received 17 v2 connections; initiated 0 
and received 0 v3 connections; initiated 2 and received 11816 v4 
connections; initiated 113167 and received 63288 v5 connections.
Jan 05 02:45:49.000 [notice] Heartbeat: DoS mitigation since startup: 0 
circuits killed with too many cells, 0 circuits rejected, 0 marked 
addresses, 0 same address concurrent connections rejected, 0 connections 
rejected, 0 single hop clients refused, 0 INTRODUCE2 rejected.
Jan 05 08:45:49.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 6 days 14:42 
hours, with 131 circuits open. I've sent 341.77 GB and received 337.28 
GB. I've received 66326 connections on IPv4 and 13652 on IPv6. I've made 
108563 connections with IPv4 and 37174 with IPv6.
Jan 05 08:45:49.000 [notice] While not bootstrapping, fetched this many 
bytes: 108020255 (server descriptor fetch); 8064 (server descriptor 
upload); 11383626 (consensus network-status fetch); 1232744 
(microdescriptor fetch)
Jan 05 08:45:49.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 
193/193 TAP, 57579/57579 NTor.
Jan 05 08:45:49.000 [notice] Since startup we initiated 0 and received 0 
v1 connections; initiated 0 and received 17 v2 connections; initiated 0 
and received 0 v3 connections; initiated 3 and received 11912 v4 
connections; initiated 115806 and received 65008 v5 connections.
Jan 05 08:45:49.000 [notice] Heartbeat: DoS mitigation since startup: 0 
circuits killed with too many cells, 0 circuits rejected, 0 marked 
addresses, 0 same address concurrent connections rejected, 0 connections 
rejected, 0 single hop clients refused, 0 INTRODUCE2 rejected.

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Any pointers on how to investigate the problem further would be welcome.

Thanks,

Quentin



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