Hosting a Whonix ™ Mirror
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Instructions on how to set up a Whonix ™ Download Mirror
rsync from whonix.org[edit]
Overview[edit]
- Available over encrypted clearnet port
874
. (Default port byopenssl-rsync
.) - Available over encrypted clearnet port
1874
. (Default port by Debian ftpsync package,rsync-ssl-tunnel
script.) - Available over encrypted onion, port
873
. (rsync
default port.)
Security advice:
- Encrypted rsync is better.
- rsync over onion is best.
Commands below use for testing:
--dry-run
Therefore:
- Later for production you might wish to drop
--dry-run
and change the destination folder from~/whonix
to a folder of your choice such as/var/www/whonix
.
preparation[edit]
sudo apt install rsync
unencrypted rsync[edit]
Deprecated. Please use TLS encrypted rsync or rsync over onion as documented below.
encrypted rsync over TLS[edit]
rsync-ssl --dry-run --recursive --delete --times --perms rsync://whonix.org/whonix ~/whonix
encrypted rsync over onion[edit]
Preparation.
sudo apt install torsocks rsync
rsync over onion from Whonix ™ onion.
torsocks rsync --dry-run --recursive --delete --times --perms "rsync://dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/whonix" ~/whonix
Current Mirrors[edit]
- https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/whonix/
[Whonix permitted use exclusivity] [no traffic limit for now] [permitted to hotlink]
- https://quantum-mirror.hu/mirrors/pub/whonix
[Whonix permitted use exclusivity] [no traffic limit for now] [permitted to hotlink] [1]
- https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/whonix/
[only updated daily for now] [Whonix could ask to update more frequently] [2]
- https://mirrors.gigenet.com/whonix/
Mirror Speed Test[edit]
03 Mai 2020
- dotsrc 103 MB/s in in 16s [acting as primary mirror since]
21 April 2020
- whonix.org 44 MB/s in 39s
- dotsrc 138 MB/s in in 12s
October 2022
- dotsrc: Download speed 7-10 MByte/s (normal for that 50-100 Mbit connection). Took about 3 - 4.5 minutes.
Forum discussion:
- https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-vm-images-download-speed-issues-and-automated-download-speed-tests/15858/2
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑
https://quantum-mirror.hu/web/status_en.html
quantum-mirror.hu (DNS round robin) super.quantum-mirror.hu 1000/350 Mb/s 78.131.56.189 nova.quantum-mirror.hu 1000/350 Mb/s 195.38.126.147 IPv4 only no FTP supports rsync
- ↑
- ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/whonix/
- rsync://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/whonix/
- gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl/1/pub/Linux/dist/whonix/