[tor-relays] Odd network activity

[Silvia/Hiro]

On 4/3/22 11:40, Eldalië via tor-relays wrote:
> Thanks very much. The anomalous peaks disappeared for most of the days
> indeed, it remained only for 26/02.

Yes, working to fix the bump for 26/02.

-hiro


> Eldalië
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> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 07:26:26 +0000
> Georg Koppen <gk at torproject.org> wrote:
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>> Eldalië via tor-relays:
>>> Hello there.
>>>
>>>> I see on every exit node I check on the metrics page, a massive
>>>> bump in bandwidth used without a change in exit probability.
>>> I just checked the metrics page for the relay I operate
>>> (791E637A38C715336290E8AC0EB6C99BD02A5F0E) and I noticed a bump
>>> similar to the one from FDAA4F76F778215F02B0B02DCE8E8504179BCDC6.
>>> However, my relay is not and has never been an exit relay. Also, it
>>> looks like the data changed retroactively: I usually check the
>>> metrics about once a day and I'm sure I would have noticed the peak
>>> of 26/02 the day after - I mean, it is a more than x3 increment
>>> from the day before (that also had the highest value ever until
>>> then). Should I worry about that? And should I report my own relay
>>> to the bad-relays mailing list?
>> No, it's fine. I am not sure yet what the problem is but I suspect
>> it's a bug in one of our recent code changes. See:
>>
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>> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/onionoo/-/issues/40022#note_2783524
>>
>> for more details. We've reverted that change for now and things
>> should normalize again assuming the traffic increase you see is
>> indeed related to it.
>>
>> Georg
>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>> Eldalië
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:01:37 +0000
>>> awffelwaffels via tor-relays <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see on every exit node I check on the metrics page, a massive
>>>> bump in bandwidth used without a change in exit probability. Is
>>>> this perhaps an attacker squeezing the bandwidth of the network so
>>>> people are more likely to use their malicious nodes?
>>>
>>>
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