On 20 December 2016 at 17:17, Alec Muffett <alec.muff...@gmail.com> wrote:
4) They get booted; each launches its own Worker onion, and each scrapes > the descriptors of all the other workers, synthesising a "master" > descriptor and publishing it once a day to the HSDirs. > > 5) This means that, for workers A B C D E F, occasionally the master > descriptor which B's onionbalance uploads to the HSDirs will get stomped-on > a few minutes later by the <same> from F, and then the <same> from D will > overwrite them, etc. > > 6) there is some (small?) extra load on the HSDirs this way - BUT the big > win is that to take this onion site "offline" will require killing all 6 > daemons, all 6 machines - hence the "Horcrux" reference from Harry Potter. > ps: obviously the Horcrux can synchronise data around itself (for webserving, etc) by using rsync over ssh to the worker onion addresses, as a backchannel. Or something like that. Maybe "git" even. -a -- http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/aboutalecm -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk