recent tor stream timeout errors...

Void Beast daemonik.dragon at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 13:09:09 UTC 2005


Tristan Helmich wrote:

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>>Just in case this wasn't clear: the current Tor network is loaded
>>as it is. P2P operators: please do not use it, and tell other P2P
>>operators not to.
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>Perhaps it is possible to detect typical P2P usage and ban it from the
>tor network?
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>Tristan Helmich
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Yeah, except doesn't that kinda go against the principal of the network? 
It's only bad right now because tor is new and not able to shoulder the 
responsibility of hosting a lot of P2P connections.. doesn't mean it 
will always be that way.

Just a thought :)

Beast



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