Hi,
As some of you might have noticed, we have a high load situation on the network for a couple of weeks now affecting in particular onion services (but not only them).[1]
We recommend Onion Services operators to enable our Proof of Work (PoW) defense[2][3] and finetune their torrc[4].
If you're running onion services with onionbalance, though, PoW is currently not supported[5], but we're interested in hearing from you if this is a feature that we should prioritize.
Thanks, Gus
ps: this advice does not apply to relay operators, only to onion services operators.
[1] https://status.torproject.org/issues/2024-05-14-network-performance-issues/ [2] https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defense-for-onion-serv... [3] https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/ecosystem/technology/pow/ [4] https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/dos/ [5] https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/ecosystem/technology/pow/#is...