[Tor-BSD] EOL of old nodes with old tor
George Rosamond
george at ceetonetechnology.com
Thu Oct 10 00:39:18 EDT 2019
For those who haven't heard, nodes with EOL'd version of tor are being
excluded:
https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network
I think it's high-time for this to happen. It should be standard protocol.
There was some panic about losing so many relays, but:
* the Tor network has the capacity to lose that bandwidth, at least
temporarily, last I saw.
* vulnerable old versions are a danger to the entire network including
the users.
* quite honestly, if a Tor relay is your first time running a public
internet box, please be careful.
What's interesting is that there's been a jump in the percent of *BSD
relays recently, some of which precedes the EOL node exclusion:
bridges-os-count FreeBSD 35 (2.9%)
bridges-os-count OpenBSD 16 (1.3%)
bridges-os-count NetBSD 1 (0.1%)
relays-os-count FreeBSD 346 (6.2%)
relays-os-count OpenBSD 75 (1.3%)
relays-os-count NetBSD 6 (0.1%)
relays-os-count ElectroBSD 4 (0.1%)
relays-os-count GNU/kFreeBSD 1 (0.0%)
If 7.7% of public relays are *BSD, that's the highest percent I can
remember.
On that note, keeping a sane maintenance schedule for your node(s) is
smart. These are public-facing internet services, and the stakes can be
high for the "consumers" out there.
That should go without saying....
g
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