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? Thanks for the help.
Eldalië
On Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:01:37 +0000 awffelwaffels via tor-relays tor-relays@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?