mdhash / TorBalancer

TorBalancer is a load balancer that uses multiple Tor clients and reuses circuits to onion sites.

TorBalancer

Balance traffic between multiple Tor clients.

Keeps the circuit and returns connections according to onion address.

HAProxy <--HTTP-->  DeleGate1 <--socks--> Tor1  <-->  Rendezvous Points
                    DeleGate2 <--socks--> Tor2  <-->  Rendezvous Points
                    ...
                    DeleGate9 <--socks--> Tor9  <-->  Rendezvous Points

Setup TorBalancer

• Installer script will install HAProxy, DeleGate and Tor
• You can install manually Tor in Tor2web mode
• You can manually setup fast Tor2webRendezvousPoints

Tor2web mode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints selection is optional.

If you want to use Tor to access public WWW sites then do not use Tor2web mode. Tor2web mode only allows connections to onion addresses.

sudo ./install.sh

Start the system

$ bash opentors.sh

Finally, you can test your HAProxy:

$ curl -x localhost:3128 http://msydqstlz2kzerdg.onion/
$ http://localhost:5000/stats

Shutdown

You can kill your Tors, DeleGates and HAProxy by

$ killall haproxy
$ killall tor
$ kill $(ps aux | grep 'delegate' | awk '{print $2}')

Old way to setup with one Polipo proxy

• Tor + Polipo
• No load balancing
• One Tor + proxy instance

$ sudo apt-get install polipo
$ sudo cp polipo_conf /etc/polipo/config
$ sudo service polipo restart