I recently upgraded to 0.4.8.13 on a new relay. But I am noticing a very large number of outbound connections. This grew over the last three hours to about a hundred outbound connections. About 90% are exit relays. 100 outbound connections would be nothing but this relay is still in the quiet first three days and there are no circuits (the conflux bug was fixed)
Is it normal to have >100 outbound connections with no circuits on an instance that is only a relay?
I never saw this behaviour on 0.4.8.12
(in the time it took to write this it increased from 98 → 130 outbound connections)
EDIT: It’s now steadyish at ~180 outbound connections, no circuits. My concern is whatever code was put in place to prevent conflux connections from getting closed early (and thus repeating) is causing outbound connections not to get closed. Also have this in the log:
16:12:08 [NOTICE] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
16:10:59 [WARN] Unable to decompress HTTP body (tried Zstandard compressed, on Directory connection (client reading) with 131.188.40.189:80).
16:10:59 [WARN] Possible compression bomb; abandoning stream.
16:10:59 [WARN] Detected possible compression bomb with input size = 16307 and output size = 467457
16:10:59 [NOTICE] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We're missing descriptors for 1/3 of our primary entry guards (total microdescriptors: 8065/8203). That's ok. We will try to fetch missing descriptors soon.
16:10:59 [NOTICE] Our directory information is no longer up-to-date enough to build circuits: We're missing descriptors for 1/3 of our primary entry guards (total microdescriptors: 8065/8203). That's ok. We will try to fetch missing descriptors soon.