[tor-onions] HSv3 load balancing: not yet?
rossulbricht at cock.li
rossulbricht at cock.li
Tue Sep 24 15:19:52 UTC 2019
I read the tor hsv3 specs and saw some parts considering load balancing.
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1.5. In more detail: Scaling to multiple hosts
This design is compatible with our current approaches for scaling
hidden
services. Specifically, hidden service operators can use onionbalance
to
achieve high availability between multiple nodes on the HSDir
layer. Furthermore, operators can use proposal 255 to load balance
their
hidden services on the introduction layer. See [SCALING-REFS] for
further
discussions on this topic and alternative designs.
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The reason for a maximum value of 20 is to give enough scalability to
tools
like OnionBalance to be able to load balance up to 120 servers (20 x
6
HSDirs) but also in order for the descriptor size to not overwhelmed
hidden
service directories with user defined values that could be gigantic.
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So... can we benefit from this? Onionbalance seems to have been
abandoned
and prop255 seems to have stalled. Is there any effective way to
properly
load balance hsv3?
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