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Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kBXLxKdcxLSCgdtnX58Y0fYJhz6TnVYEB4EAH9=p7KKg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:36:40 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
Cc: Full Disclosure List <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Who's behind limestonenetworks.com AKA DDoS
	on polipo(8123)

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:37:54PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 05:29:52PM -0300, Luther Blissett wrote:
>> >> Hello dear companions,
>> >>
>> >> Two days ago one of my tor exit nodes experienced something I'm now
>> >> calling "limestonenetworks DDoS on polipo" ( $WAN_IP:8123 ), since all
>> >
>> > DDoS? So you mean your systems were impacted by that?
>> He may be running an exit node for the benefit of others on a low
>> bandwidth connection.
>>
>> Forgive me if you were joking with an old friend, or I missed something.
>
> Let's check how massive that "attack" is.
I didn't claim it was massive. I simply said he may be bandwidth limited.

What other traffic is on that line? Or do all Tor folks purchase a
second internet connection for their Tor services?

Jeff

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