[tbb-bugs] #33864 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Nightly Tor Browser updates are broken since at least 4/6/2020

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#33864: Nightly Tor Browser updates are broken since at least 4/6/2020
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 Reporter:  gk                        |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  High                      |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam202004      |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by boklm):

 So it seems the issue was caused by downloads from
 http://f4amtbsowhix7rrf.onion/ being extremely slow (less than 10 KB/s).
 After looking at the web server logs, I noticed that something (maybe a
 web crawler) was trying to download every files, starting downloading a
 new every one or two seconds, which I though might be causing the issue.

 To avoid web crawlers trying to download everything, I added some http
 authentication, with username and password `tor-guest`:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/boklm/tor-browser-
 build.git/commit/?h=bug_25102_v10&id=0201edc70f003ed7ffcee0098f752453a87980ba
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/boklm/tor-browser-
 build.git/commit/?h=bug_25102_v10&id=1e1b5600fbdcc510692231905881e18deebba1be

 This removed the many requests in the log. However download was still very
 slow, so this did not solve the issue. I removed `/var/lib/tor/state` and
 restarted tor (changing guards), and now it seems the downloads are back
 to previous speed.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/33864#comment:2>
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