[tor] Re: Fwd: Re: [tor-talk] How to manage 100 Tor bridges?
- From: Moritz Bartl <moritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: torservers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:43:38 +0100
hi,
On 07.03.2011 21:27, Michael Burns wrote:
>> The most important benefit I see is that you can easily switch IP with a
>> few mouseclicks, and you have a LOT of IP ranges to choose from.
> Doing that by hand is going to be tedious. And tracking when Tor hangs
> and needs to be restarted becomes a guessing game.
Despite the title it was meant to be in response to the "free 1 year Tor
bridge on Amazon" discussion.
> For actually managing 100 tor servers (even with the relatively little
> admin'ing needed), having an automated system still seems more
> prudent, to ensure smooth running.
Of course. We cannot use Amazon AWS for anything like that though,
unfortunately, because you cannot assign more than one IP to one running
instance at a time. We would have to run 100 VMs, which costs roughly
more than $8000 per month.
> I'm happy to offer my services as a FOSS-contributor and (employed) sysadmin.
Excellent. Some others on IRC said they wanted to look into Puppet, but
so far I haven't heard of any moves on that. Maybe you want to come by
on IRC to discuss?
If you are fluent with Puppet already, feel free to write some scripts
based on our tutorials at
https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/server
https://www.torservers.net/wiki/setup/bridge
I can also really use some scripts to update MyFamily and alter exit
rules on all our nodes. Something I can run on each node that downloads
a (signed?) copy of our torrc, reads the MyFamily from it and replaces
all occurences in all files in /etc/tor. For exit policy it would be not
as easy, because we use different rules on different relays.
--
Moritz Bartl
https://www.torservers.net/
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