[tor-relays] Shutting down my ~40 guards

[forest via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello.

Within a matter of minutes, quite a few of my relays have come under
attack again. As there has been no progress in mitigating the attacks
despite several new releases of Tor coming out and no information from
the devs about any in-progress mitigations or even plans to develop a
mitigation, I'm no longer able to run relays that are eligible for the
HSDir flag. The attacks have been causing financial strain to me and
straining my relationship with my hosting providers, many of which I
have spent significant effort to convince to allow Tor.

If someone knows of a mitigation, can poke the devs to write one, can
point me in the right direction for writing my own without getting my
relays marked bad for behaving in a non-standard way, or knows of a way
to get my relays blacklisted from the HSDir flag besides just setting
DirCache 0 (which also prevents being a guard), please tell me.

This is a difficult decision, but if there's really no plan or progress
in developing a mitigation for these attacks, I'll be shutting down ~40
guards over the next several days. I just don't know what else to do.

Regards,
forest
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