periodic pattern in network connections ofa newly setup relay

I observed this in August this year and now in the last days again. I'm just curious if this is the test pattern from the authorities or whatever else is causing this ?

changed milestone to %Tor: unspecified

added component::core tor/tor milestone::Tor: unspecified needs-analysis priority::low severity::minor status::needs-information tor-relay type::task version::tor 0.2.9.5-alpha labels

I'm trying to attach https://zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver/graph-20160825.svg onto this ticket but it is recognized as spam :-(

Trac:

sysstat

Trac:

sysstat from 28th of November 2016

boths graphs shows an exit which was setup few hours/days ago respectively, therefore the traffic is rather the one to other relays I'd assume

Which relay is that? There might be various explanations for this.

Perhaps a mail to the [tor-relays] mailing list might be better suited here than a trac ticket, so that people can tell you if they experience similar patterns.

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

Replying to asn:

Which relay is that? There might be various explanations for this.

Perhaps a mail to the [tor-relays] mailing list might be better suited here than a trac ticket, so that people can tell you if they experience similar patterns.

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/1AF72E8906E6C49481A791A6F8F84F8DFEBBB2BA

It happened with its predecessor too (same hardware) in August this year.

I mailed at 27th of August about that, but the replies just confirmed it but I didn't found a real explanation of it.

Trac:
Milestone: N/A to Tor: unspecified

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tor-relay needs-analysis added

Trac:
graph.svg.gz

gzipped svg graphic

Attached the sysstat graphic output of 5th of April

moved to tpo/core/tor#20849 (closed)