[tor-mirrors] A couple of questions

[Alexander Dietrich]

Thank you both for your answers! 

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On 2014-10-22 17:04, AskApache Webmaster wrote: 

> ditto, have seen no sustained DDoS since launched. Anyone wanting to break in to a tor mirror will likely be good enough to not be noticed (who do you think would want to compromise tors privacy by supplying modified bins?). 
> 
> Personally I keep my mirror on a separate dedicated box on a separate network, always a plus to make it a relay as well.
> 
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, PW <pw at pw.is> wrote:
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> Hi Alex, 
> 
> 1) How much traffic does an "average" mirror get every month? 
> 
> This are some traffic stats (in MB) of one of my machines: 
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> - 2014/01: 13.432.880 (6.779.133 in / 6.653.747 out) 
> - 2014/02: 11.819.848 (6.110.212 in / 5.709.636 out) 
> - 2014/03: 13.114.258 (6.885.720 in / 6.228.538 out) 
> - 2014/04: 4.858.630 (2.540.889 in / 2.317.741 out) 
> - 2014/05: 7.729.418 (3.914.204 in / 3.815.214 out) 
> - 2014/06: 16.973.778 (8.400.915 in / 8.572.863 out) 
> - 2014/07: 14.780.378 (7.729.226 in / 7.051.152 out) 
> - 2014/08: 17.505.642 (8.898.848 in / 8.606.794 out) 
> - 2014/09: 16.402.615 (8.437.329 in / 7.965.286 out) 
> 
> This machine serves as a tor website and dist mirror, relay and several other mirrors (perhaps tails, kali and other security related sites). 
> Load is not a problem, see your question 3) I do mix everything to net get clear stats per mirror. 
> 2) Do mirror hosts see a lot of DoS attacks or break-in attempts? 
> 
> My nodes did not get any (or I did not see any ;-)). 
> But it is exposed like any other machine on the world wide web. So be sure to implement operational security, e.g. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OperationalSecurity [1] 
> 3) Is it a good idea to run a mirror and a relay on the same machine? 
> 
> I do have it running, combined with other mirrors in order to get washy traffic stats for anyone watching. 
> 
> Greets!
> PW

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