[tor-project] Decommissioning siv.sunet.se

Tom Ritter tom at ritter.vg
Mon Nov 26 21:21:13 UTC 2018


On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 04:15, teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Dear bandwidth authority operators,
>
> > On 20 Nov 2018, at 23:37, Linus Nordberg <linus at sunet.se> wrote:
> >
> > However, judging from its web server logs, several systems on the
> > internet are pulling bwauth files form siv. If you are running one of
> > these systems, please let me know how badly you need to continue doing
> > this and for how long.
>
> If you can, please use different servers for your bandwidth files.
>
> If multiple operators are using the same server, then it becomes a single
> point of failure for the bandwidth measurement system.
>
> Similarly, try not to use servers that depend on torproject.org, because
> then the tor project DNS becomes a single point of failure.
>
> Thanks for your hard work!

So what's the best choice here? I don't think I have the capacity
(neither speed or bandwidth cap) to self-host this on ritter.vg. I can
use https://www.seul.org/ like moria. Or I can use fastly. Or
something else?

-tom


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