[tor-dev] Review of Proposal 212, Increase Acceptable Consensus Age (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2013-12-20 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > 212 Increase Acceptable Consensus Age > > This proposal suggests that we increase the maximum age of a > consensus that clients are willing to use when they can't > find a new one, in order to make the network robust for > longer a

Re: [tor-dev] [Question to sysadmins and HS operators:] How should Hidden Services scale?

2013-12-20 Thread Nicolas Vigier
On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, George Kadianakis wrote: > > For this reason we started wondering whether DNS-round-robin-like > scalability is actually worth such trouble. AFAIK most big websites > use DNS round-robin, but is it necessary? What about application-layer > solutions like HAProxy? Do applicati

[tor-dev] [Question to sysadmins and HS operators:] How should Hidden Services scale?

2013-12-20 Thread George Kadianakis
Hello people, you might have noticed that there is a redesign of hidden services going on. For a while we've been told that "hidden services don't scale" and "there is a max number of clients that a hidden service can handle" so we decided to also consider hidden service scalability as part of t