[tor-onions] Garbage collection of abandoned onion servers

[Daniel Robinson]

What details?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 1:53 AM mane via tor-onions <
tor-onions at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

> Well done!
>
> I would be interested on knowing more details about the project and
> eventually help with kubernetes setup, if that's somehow needed.
>
> Cheers,
> mane
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 at 1:29 AM, p13dz p13dz via tor-onions <
> tor-onions at lists.torproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> We've built a solution to scale our onion server horizontally using
> Kubernetes horizontal autoscaler. It's basically an onionbalance & a set of
> wrappers to regenerate its config file depending on the set of running
> TorHiddenService instances.
> Each time we scale the set of servers up, we start new Tor onion servers
> on random addresses (that's what onionbalance expects), and their
> descriptors are then merged into the single one by onionbalance. When we
> delete old instances, their onion addresses are abandoned.
> We want to be good citizens and not to clutter Tor's DHT with abandoned
> records. My question basically is whether the Tor ecosystem automatically
> deletes abandoned descriptors or not. If yes, we can keep our system
> simpler. If not, we'll have to make the system stateful and try to reuse
> our existing onions as much as possible.
> Thanks.
>
>
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