Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> writes: > Roger Dingledine wrote: > > <snip> > > >>> - #8902 Rumors that hidden services have trouble scaling to 100 >>> concurrent connections > > I've been curious about this ticket for a while, and happy to > structure&run a follow-up test on a controlled server. Since the > original problem was with an IRC server, it makes sense to set one up > for the purposes of a test, and then set up a secondary machine for > user' connections and an extra monitoring point. >
Yes, someone testing this theory would be awesome! I would be surprised if 100 connections is the _exact_ number where HSes starts dying. However, I'd totally believe that there might be issues causing HSes to get more unreliable after some load. We should find these issues! > I suspect that there are other factors that might have influenced > that report. Could it be an issue with one of the intermediary > points? There certainly *seem* to be tons of people using the OFTC > hidden service, but that could be perception (ie, still <100 > concurrent users). > > <snip> > >> What sorts of hidden service examples are we missing from the world >> that >> we'd really like to see, and that would help everybody understand the >> value and flexibility of hidden services? >> >> Along these lines would be fleshing out the "hidden service challenge" >> idea I've been kicking around, where as a follow-up to the EFF relay >> challenge, we challenge everybody to set up a novel hidden service. We >> would somehow need to make it so people didn't just stick their current >> website behind a hidden service -- or maybe that would be an excellent >> outcome? > > This could be fun. =) We could put out a blog post when Stormy > reaches 1.0 about this too. > Ah Stormy! I was a fan of the APAF project [0] and Stormy seems to be its successor. I liked APAF because it would be the LAMP of Hidden Services: it would make them easier to setup and configure. For this reason, I think Stormy fits very well with Roger's hopes of "improving" the role of HSes in society. I'm excited to learn what you've been cooking in this front. Is there a document that describes what Stormy aims to do? It would be great if such a design document existed even if Stormy is not at 1.0 yet :) The document doesn't need to be big or detailed, but it would be great if we could learn what Stormy is about. [0]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/apaf.git/blob/HEAD:/spec.txt _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
