doc: Fix typo and clarify that DoS options are relay only

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Mike Perry 2018-04-11 02:47:00 +00:00 committed by David Goulet
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@ -2412,7 +2412,8 @@ DENIAL OF SERVICE MITIGATION OPTIONS
Tor has three built-in mitigation options that can be individually
enabled/disabled and fine-tuned, but by default Tor directory authorities will
define reasonable values for relays and no explicit configuration is required
to make use of these protections. The mitigations are:
to make use of these protections. The mitigations take place at relays,
and are as follows:
1. If a single client address makes too many concurrent connections (this is
configurable via DoSConnectionMaxConcurrentCount), hang up on further
@ -2429,13 +2430,13 @@ to make use of these protections. The mitigations are:
Tor2Web client), ignore the request.
These defenses can be manually controlled by torrc options, but relays will
also take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to configure
anything manually. In doubt, do not change those values.
also take guidance from consensus parameters using these same names, so there's
no need to configure anything manually. In doubt, do not change those values.
The values set by the consensus, if any, can be found here:
https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#consensusparams
If any of the DoS mitigations are enabled, an heartbeat message will appear in
If any of the DoS mitigations are enabled, a heartbeat message will appear in
your log at NOTICE level which looks like:
DoS mitigation since startup: 429042 circuits rejected, 17 marked addresses.