Arm shows that my middle relay has incoming connections from UNKNOWN relays (no consensus data on them at all except locale). Are these bridges?
There is also one outgoing connection to UNKNOWN but the address of that is 0.0.0.0:0
On 10 Dec. 2016, at 23:05, Rana ranaventures@gmail.com wrote:
Arm shows that my middle relay has incoming connections from UNKNOWN relays (no consensus data on them at all except locale). Are these bridges?
Possibly, or they are relays that are not in the current consensus, but are in a consensus still being used by a client. (Clients will use consensuses up to 27 hours old, there is one consensus per hour.)
There is also one outgoing connection to UNKNOWN but the address of that is 0.0.0.0:0
Well, that sounds like an address retrieval error, or a connection from your relay to itself.
T
-----Original Message----- From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org] On Behalf Of teor Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 2:54 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Connections from UNKNOWN relays
On 10 Dec. 2016, at 23:05, Rana ranaventures@gmail.com wrote:
Arm shows that my middle relay has incoming connections from UNKNOWN relays (no consensus data on them at all except locale). Are these bridges?
Possibly, or they are relays that are not in the current consensus, but are in a consensus still being used by a client. (Clients will use consensuses up to 27 hours old, there is one consensus per hour.)
Assuming most of these are bridges, this could be a vulnerability as this allows rogue middle relays to enumerate bridges.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Rana wrote:
Assuming most of these are bridges, this could be a vulnerability as this allows rogue middle relays to enumerate bridges.
Plenty more open research problems where that one came from: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/research-problems-ten-ways-discover-tor-bri...
(I think the one you listed is #2 of the 10.)
--Roger
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