On Freitag, 2. August 2024 02:10:21 CEST Martin Gebhardt via tor-relays wrote:
Since you are all tinkering with your servers anyway, why don't you try deb822-style ;-)
Because that doesn't make sense for public Tor nodes, but rather for .onion services. Many ISPs and providers have a Debian and Tor mirror and I use them via clearnet because reliability for security updates is important to me.
ok, you are probably referring to the fact that i use the repo via .onion. But i actually wanted to point out the format of the APT source files, see https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/apt/sources.list.5.en.html#DEB822-STYL E_FORMAT :-)
Aah. Ooh, thanks. Interesting. I didn't know that. Must be new or I missed it in the release notes.
And regardless of that: In my opinion, it makes perfect sense to also obtain public services such as OS updates via Tor. The more data flying around the Tor network, the better it is for the Tor network.
With 100 Tor instances and 20G for Tor traffic, the daily repo delta gives me almost zero ;-) On the other hand, we are currently building a hidden service exchange. Damn, the Tor network is overloaded with DoS attacks, so I try to avoid any traffic.