On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 21:27 +0000, Nusenu wrote: > I was wondering if it makes sense to use hidden service addresses to > access apt mirrors instead of going through an exit to reduce the load > on exit relays? I'm interested in the answer to this question, because I keep changing my mind as to whether hidden service Debian mirror(s) are worth setting up. Would we need to create a redirector service like http.debian.net to balance the load? In terms of load on the Tor network, I would have thought that hidden services cost double the bandwidth, because they use six hops instead of three. But I don't know whether exit node bandwidth is the bottleneck. If anyone's really interested in apt-transport-tor, by the way, there's this quite interesting bug report that I wouldn't mind more eyes on: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749611 (which actually affects anyone running apt over Tor using e.g. tsocks) -- Tim Retout <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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