Hey Forest I can see you've done a huge amount of work for the Tor network. Losing your relays would be a huge loss. I hope the developers take this seriously and respond soon. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, October 12th, 2026 at 10:45 AM, forest via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
Hello.
Within a matter of minutes, quite a few of my relays have come under attack again. As there has been no progress in mitigating the attacks despite several new releases of Tor coming out and no information from the devs about any in-progress mitigations or even plans to develop a mitigation, I'm no longer able to run relays that are eligible for the HSDir flag. The attacks have been causing financial strain to me and straining my relationship with my hosting providers, many of which I have spent significant effort to convince to allow Tor.
If someone knows of a mitigation, can poke the devs to write one, can point me in the right direction for writing my own without getting my relays marked bad for behaving in a non-standard way, or knows of a way to get my relays blacklisted from the HSDir flag besides just setting DirCache 0 (which also prevents being a guard), please tell me.
This is a difficult decision, but if there's really no plan or progress in developing a mitigation for these attacks, I'll be shutting down ~40 guards over the next several days. I just don't know what else to do.
Regards, forest