October 2018 - tor-mirrors - lists.torproject.org

Usefullness of providing TOR mirrors?
by Niklas Edmundsson 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi! I'm one of the mirror admins for ftp.acc.umu.se. It's nice that the tor mirroring effort is seeing some attention from the project, but I'm still curious on what the plan/purpose/goal with the mirroring effort is from an end-user perspective. Bear in mind that I'm mostly accustomed to "regular" open source projects and not fully updated on all the issues with a privacy-oriented project such as TOR. However, I see issues with the usefulness of providing a TOR mirror. One of the prime motivations for us to provide a mirror is the benefit for users in our local region, and this is especially true for other mirrors in bandwidth-starved regions. If there is more bandwidth consumption by mirroring a project than there are downloads it's kind of hard to motivate a mirror in the first place. >From what I have gathered it's today almost impossible for an end user to find and use a mirror... 1) https://www.torproject.org/ -> Download brings you to https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en which seems hard-coded to download from dist.torproject.org ... No mirror usage there. 2) There is no list of alternative/mirror download locations. I can google my way to https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/mirrors.html.en but that's not updated with the latest mirrors nor sorted in a user-friendly manner (you want the list by country/region). 3) The TOR project itself doesn't seem to have much interest in actually using its mirrors. For example https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27586 discards using mirrorbits with "not needed at the moment", when the exact opposite is true. We mirror admins WANT the traffic, and the TOR project NEEDS something to enable that together with automatically monitoring/disabling broken mirrors for a useful end-user experience. 4) And finally, if all above is catered for, there is the question on how to do download mirror redirect/selection in a clear yet useful manner for the end user. Should the user always be presented with a list of mirrors to choose from? Should that be generated on the server side or in-browser from a list of current mirrors (ie. json output from mirrorbits or similar)? We are heading into privacy concerns here, but it needs to be addressed in a better way than just assuming that the three magic hosts serving dist.torproject.org is the best choice for a particular end-user... /Nikke -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Niklas Edmundsson, Admin @ {acc,hpc2n}.umu.se | nikke(a)acc.umu.se --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beam me up, there's no intelligent life here! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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ADD mirror.cyberbits.eu
by root＠cyberbits.eu 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi, I'm mirroring the Tor Project and would love to be listed as a public mirror. It's set up according to https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en (proper MIME types and autoindex on). Here is the CSV line: root AT cyberbits DOT eu, cyberbits.eu, FR, France, FR, TRUE, TRUE, No, http://mirror.cyberbits.eu/torproject.org/, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/torproject.org/, , , http://mirror.cyberbits.eu/torproject.org/dist/, https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/torproject.org/dist/, , , It syncs every 2 hours from rsync://rsync.torproject.org. Please let me know if you need more information. You can find more details at https://cyberbits.eu/ Thank you.

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New Mirrors
by Özcan Oğuz 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

I send it once before, but they didn't added to tor mirror list, I'm sending them again. iletisim at hackerspace.ist, Hackerspace Istanbul, TR, Amsterdam, NL, TRUE, FALSE, No, http://tor.hackerspace.ist/, https://tor.hackerspace.ist/, , , http://tor.hackerspace.ist/dist/, https://tor.hackerspace.ist/dist/, , , Thu Aug 4 18:10:12 2018 iletisim at hackerspace.ist, Ozgurlesin.org (hs.ist), TR, Amsterdam, NL, TRUE, FALSE, No, http://tor.ozgurlesin.org/, https://tor.ozgurlesin.org/, , , http://tor.ozgurlesin.org/dist/, https://tor.ozgurlesin.org/dist/, , , Thu Aug 4 18:10:12 2018 -- Özcan Oğuz Hackerspace Istanbul <https://hackerspace.ist> GPG Anahtarı: 0x3D975818 ,= ,-_-. =. ((_/)o o(\_)) Free software, free society. `-'(. .)`-' \_/

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ADD Mirror Request
by merlijn＠serverius.net 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Hi, I had submitted the info also in august but no reply unfortanely. We've mirrored the dist and web archives of the Tor Project. Organization: Serverius Connectivity Location: Meppel, Netherlands Bandwidth: 10Gbit DIST: http://mirror.serverius.net/torproject/dist/ https://mirror.serverius.net/torproject/dist/ rsync://mirror.serverius.net/torproject/dist WWW: http://mirror.serverius.net/torproject https://mirror.serverius.net/torproject rsync://mirror.serverius.net/torproject/ With kind regards, Merlijn de Leeuw On-site support engineer at the Serverius datacenters Ketelskamp 10, 7942 KG Meppel (The Netherlands) merlijn(a)serverius.net https://serverius.net - Skype: merlijn.serverius.bv DISCLAIMER: This email contains confidential information and is only intended for the addressee(s). Providing and/or sharing this information to third parties without the prior written permission of Serverius (II) B.V. is prohibited. The Serverius (II) B.V. General Terms & Conditions apply to this email/ticket.

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ADD Mirror Request
by Adam Quenneville 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Tor Project, We've mirrored the dist and web archives of the Tor Project. Organization: The Free Mirror Project Location: Montreal, Canada Bandwidth: 250mbps DIST: https://mirror1.freemirror.org/tor/dist/ https://mirror1.freemirror.org/tor/dist/ rsync://mirror1.freemirror.org::tor-dist WWW: https://mirror1.freemirror.org/tor/torproject.org/ https://mirror1.freemirror.org/tor/torproject.org/ rsync://mirror1.freemirror.org::tor-www It is set to synchronize every 3 hours from rsync.torproject.org. Please advise, -- Adam Quenneville Founder, The Free Mirror Project <https://FreeMirror.org/> /"Enabling the free exchange of information and ideas."/

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Mirror community update
by Traumschule 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

Hi, this list has accumulated some unanswered mails, sorry for the delay. - The mirror community now has a component in trac and is waiting for feature requests.[2] - The update script got an overhaul, feel encouraged to review it! [1] - After removing offline mirrors 43 were still in the game. In case your mirror is no longer listed, please send a mail and it will be recovered. The current list can be seen at https://github.com/torproject/webwml/blob/47cbb62873bd44a97b69c676585d5213e… - Announced new mirrors have been added. The TLS certificate for 108.248.87.242 and tor.ozgurlesin.org does not match the domain and there were timeouts during testing. If some errors turn out as permanent, they mirror will be removed at some point in the future. Feel free to comment on https://bugs.torproject.org/27997 These changes have not yet been merged to the website so in case you find errors, there's a time window to correct them before. Please tell! This question has already been answered, just to confirm: > Can I just mirror the "files" and skip the "web" part? Yes, you are free to offer one or more of following types: - httpWebsiteMirror - httpsWebsiteMirror - ftpWebsiteMirror - httpDistMirror - httpsDistMirror - onionServiceMirror If you have ideas to improve the mirror community, please share them on-list or if you have an account on trac at ticket #22150. https://bugs.torproject.org/22150 Thanks for providing a mirror in the past / present / future! [1] https://github.com/torproject/webwml/pull/58 [2] https://trac.torprojec.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&component=Comm… -- traumschule.org gpg fingerprint: 9356 4DED 8546 8D9A C290 3605 12EE 7D70 7111 2056 /otr info OTR: traumschule(a)irc.indymedia.org fingerprint: OTR: 35AACA83 4564616C B6EBEC66 56B6B2FC C8D572F1 OTR: traumschule(a)irc.oftc.net fingerprint: OTR: D1CCD207 B60C1866 56A975AE ACE090E9 45E90846 OTR: traumschule(a)chat.freenode.net fingerprint: OTR: 51BF8BB9 434840CC 24F264BC 76450C27 A6AADB12

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New German Mirror
by mirror＠awo-support.de 10 Oct '18

10 Oct '18

We sync hourly from rsync://rsync.torproject.org/dist-mirror/ Mirror inclusion csv: http://tor.awo-support.de/dist/ (see also comments below) * Mirror name tor.awo-support.de * Mirror organization AWO Support * Mirror location Germany * Mirror speed 1 Gbps * Mirror administrator (email) mirror at awo-support.de * Mirror access URLs http://tor.awo-support.de/dist/

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Tor rsync
by Andy Weber 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hi, Is it just me or is rsync down since sometime yesterday? rsync: failed to connect to rsync.torproject.org (94.130.28.200): Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(125) [Receiver=3.1.2] ---- Andy Weber andy(a)0x3d.lu

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