[tor-relays] How best to convince people not to block Tor entirely when they cite DDOS attacks as the reason?

2021-04-07 Thread Nils Erik Flick
Hi everyone, (Tor advocacy vs. panicked small-time hosting company suffering from "massive attacks") What advice can I offer to someone who's blocking traffic from Tor because their network is apparently experiencing sustained DOS attacks via some exits? They explained to me that they were awa

[tor-relays] Fallback Directories - Upcoming Change

2021-04-07 Thread David Goulet
Greetings! This is to announce that the Tor Project network team will soon change how fallback directories are selected as we are about to update that list. As a reminder, here is the fallback directory definition from the tor man page: When tor is unable to connect to any directory cache for

Re: [tor-relays] Fallback Directories - Upcoming Change

2021-04-07 Thread Toralf Förster
On 4/7/21 9:04 PM, David Goulet wrote: Over time, we will remove or add more relays at each minor release if the set of fallback directories not working reaches a 25% threshold or more. In the past a fallback dir volunteer committed himself to have address and port stable for 2 years. If a rel