Wissam
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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:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/if-you-love-bitcoin-you-should-help-tor
This is a reply to several posts that have complained of slowness of Tor and of some Qubes OS functions.
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
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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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