Hey Forest
I can see you've done a huge amount of work for the Tor network. Losing your relays would be a huge loss. I hope the developers take this seriously and respond soon.
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On Monday, October 12th, 2026 at 10:45 AM, forest via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
> 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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