Not from within the project but I take the mirrors from this mailing list and forward it so that others can obtain Tor. Around here the main site (torproject.org) is regularly banned.

Berkant

Quoting Peter Ludikovsky peter@ludikovsky.name:

Hello,

Given the CDN-sponsoring by Fastly [1] I wonder what the future will hold for mirror volunteers. I do know that those mirrors aren't taken into account for updates and aren't listen on the download site [2]. The only place I've seen them so far was when I used Tor Browser Launcher [3], which uses a mirror list from 2 years ago.

My question is: what, if anything, is planned for the mirrors? Will the main use be a backup, in case the main site goes down and/or is compromised? Will they be included as part of the Fastly transport? Or will they be only a fallback for advanced users who want to compare binaries from multiple sources for integrity?

It would be nice if anyone from within the project could answer any of those questions.

Regards /peter

[1] https://www.fastly.com/blog/sponsoring-tor-project-content-delivery-services [2] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en [3] https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher