-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello.
I am a security researcher and privacy advocate and I am currently running 25 servers in diverse locations that are mainly being used to run Tor relays and exits. At the moment, 6 of them are also running Hyphanet nodes with unmetered connections and between 10 and 500 GiB of storage for the datastore. Most of them are VPSes. I plan to add more nodes to the network, and I would like to ask a few questions about optimizing them in order to maximize their contribution to the project. I don't use them to browse freesites, so there is no need for them to try to protect my own anonymity. If you don't mind: - Should I connect each of my nodes together as darknet peers, since they are all equally trusted? I do not want any of them to attempt to make suboptimal routing decisions by prioritizing darknet peers when there are better routes available. - Should I openly advertise my node's darknet ports and noderef on platforms that I am active on so that people who trust me (but who I do not know) can add my nodes as "trusted" entrypoints? - Are there any settings I should adjust that will improve my node's contribution to the network? I am happy to turn off any security or anonymity settings if it improves network performance without also decreasing the security of other users on the network. For example, would setting 'node.writeLocalToDatastore' have any downsides if I am not worried about my own personal privacy or anonymity? - My servers are primarily CPU and memory constrained. Are there any configuration tweaks I can make which would lighten the load on the processor to improve its overall performance? For example, adjusting the compression ratio and compression percentage? I am getting about 2.5 Mbps (in+out) at 70% CPU usage, but the port is always capable of 100 Mbps minimum. Disk I/O is never a bottleneck. - Should I run a seednode? If so, is there anything I have to do other than toggle the setting, or would it be necessary for the project to manually add my node to the list of seednodes? I plan to add a number of new servers soon, and I will put Hyphanet on many of them. They will all be running alongside Tor relays, resources permitting. Regards, forest -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEvLrj6cuOL+I/KdxYBh18rEKN1gsFAmk+BLQACgkQBh18rEKN 1guqHQ/8D6iLhCA2YiXyEfXpMBMc939ST0WqiTV4xdMz9FpGq2Xib28bYtw+VBRx 86/4zk9hVuRTtcPdnKT1nEgYvc9gy4R6h2iAJ3FmRtY68O25IYaA6OgQ9YagOBJk xEsR6uznkCnrwEEw0letgS+9SQS3vmgjU5mRZrFZ3P8hGJ8eR7eA6/aIockbMLN5 /xnzu22bmCt7iygzuec9rDs7/HQ05MQehoDJVFOyDXSvNcmosehKeu8+PQa9ueY4 WsV4l2Efmupm+nV5+IXeBmhy25Kqa68Hatzlvw0EJgw3fCZx0bkPynZ8vAu1Wbtd YS3rMjslNysvZ96LVGYeBFRptK1UfI/qwxi/V23sB7KU9N4D4upDG8Eq776msLT+ +R3ijWEMP0Jd6Oa2O5H7ZPC3qGG+XEbwnpau2YVJ87CPKQ7QgTC3jPUkPEmI67Fb PC3hY056NsES+1AbcksCgXLh/9hznQDM1paNxd5Swey9qRKlyhz1DV992OWb9CUe NpGS9K+/hoa97dclBY2aTcJKqBvkTTLDF51wL6eO3X5lvoCf+guCR0V06u9bVMXz CNMbFw3L+svKgQEiYlDaxvCOynSGySczM2kWe7IULVLQwhP0/bBeB5wS0o7zWdXR x6aTXLA1qh8bdICk+uFmGHXDrnj9Q+XKbm8VruRMKdJnH5TfR1U= =Hwv7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
