[tor-onions] HS/Relay Multitenancy

Tom Ritter tom at ritter.vg
Wed Jun 6 16:51:54 UTC 2018


Do 2 and 3 matter?  Are their concerns with running a relay and HS on
the same tor instance if you aren't concerned with denonymizing your
HS location?

-tom

On 6 June 2018 at 16:13, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
> Gareth Llewellyn <gareth at brasshorncommunications.uk> writes:
>
>> Leading on from a discussion on Reddit's /r/onions;
>>
>> Given an operator who is "dual stacking" their website on both example.com and example.onion yet finds themselves with spare CPU/RAM/bandwidth and wants to operate a relay too what is the current community opinion of this? (given the caveats / conditions detailed below)
>>
>> On the inverse I operate a set of Exits [1] but these servers also have secondary services (ssh, grafana, httpd) that are exposed with onion services.
>>
>> There are recommendations for running multiple relays on the same host to maximize the CPU/bandwidth etc so I'd be interested if the community still opposes the running of HS' and Relays given the following conditions;
>>
>> 1. No anonymity concerns from downtime correlation (example.com == example.onion)
>> 2. Relay daemon is a separate instance to HS daemon
>> 3. Relay daemon and HS daemon bind to different IPs
>>
>
> Hello Gareth,
>
> If you are aware of (1) and you have spare bandwidth/CPU, then I don't
> see a problem running a relay alongside to your HS daemon.
> _______________________________________________
> tor-onions mailing list
> tor-onions at lists.torproject.org
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-onions


More information about the tor-onions mailing list