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I recently had to do some basic sysadmin stuff over tor and I disagree with OP. Two things that failed mieserably, fetching a file that was just shy of 5M, and
by INTPenis 5y ago
I recently had to do some basic sysadmin stuff over tor and I disagree with OP.
Two things that failed mieserably, fetching a file that was just shy of 5M, and a reverse SSH tunnel.
The SSH tunnel was unusable, it would only last for minutes at the most. I wish I could use mosh but that requires UDP.
The file transfer was actually done with curl and the file was often incomplete.
This was all done within Europe where we have the highest concentration of tor nodes.
So no, I don't think tor is appropriate for sysadmin tasks.
- aarchi 5y ago> This was all done within Europe where we have the highest concentration of tor nodes. So Tor nodes take locality into account? Although, that would improve speeds, it seems like an information leak.
- INTPenis 5y agoNot sure, just an educated guess but peering is best in that region so there is a large selection of nodes with very good peering. No need to use a node outside of europe.
- eloeffler 5y agoOut of curiosity: Have yout set up your onion service in single-hop/Non-Anonymous mode as suggested in the article? I've been using tor for shell access only and it worked reasonably well for me, but I havent't tried this mode and wonder if your issues persist if it is used.
- INTPenis 5y agoNo I didn't know you could do that. But also in my use case anonymity was a requisite.