Wissam
October 21, 2022, 6:13pm
#1
In recent months, Tor has been very slow, and several Qubes updates via Tor only succeed after several attempts. This is because of an ongoing DDOS against ToR. See:
We are experiencing a network-wide DDoS attempt impacting the performance of the Tor network, which includes both onion services and non-onion services traffic. We are currently investigating potential mitigations.
Update, 2022-07-07 13:00UTC: the...
This is a reply to several posts that have complained of slowness of Tor and of some Qubes OS functions.
Recently I have been having trouble connecting to Tor or with any connectivity thru sys-whonix. I say only recently because it was doing just fine until a couple days ago. Not sure why this keeps happening.
I do have a VPN installed and running on one of my AppVMs (if this is not recommended for security please let me know) but it shouldn’t affect it because it is on another AppVM with a different net cube. I’ve also tried connecting with the VPN and appvm shut down.
Is this because it’s going through sys-whonix or something?
Is there a way to at least get a different “Tor profile” or something to see if that helps with download speeds?
Finally, what is the difference between sys-whonix, whonix-ws-16, and whonix-gw-16 ? (Only the first is started for updates)
What is the reason for dom0 taking ages to check for updates? We’re not even talking about downloading them, just checking…
Mitigation: Are there instructions on how to re-route the update mechanism to a VPN Qube / sys-vpn, as an alternative to update via Tor?
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enmus
October 22, 2022, 6:48pm
#2
Just set your sys-vpn as the default update VM in your /etc/qubes/policy.d/30-user.policy
Or, install apt-cacher-ng, and change it’s netVM to sys-vpn on the fly when not satisfied with the speed…
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