[tor-relays] Same relay (identity key) on two IPs

[Niklas Kielblock]

There's a long-standing bug for this scenario [1]. Apparently, this 
"confuses clients". But as you've fixed this now, there shouldn't be any 
problems.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/608

On 26/02/2015 14:31, catchthemall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> tl;dr:
>
> Due to a config error my relay [1] was running on two different IPs at
> the same time for about half a day. Now the traffic has dropped.
> I just wanted to make sure that it is not flagged as malicious or
> something ...
> Additionally I am curious about the policy in such a case. What happens
> if a relay shows up in the network with the same identity key but on
> different IP addresses?
>
>
> long-version (kinda funny):
>
> I am using webtropia [2] as a service provide which is, as far I can
> tell, is a good choice for running a relay. Some time ago I decided to
> change the hosting plan and switch to another offer at the same
> provider. For that reason I let my old contract run out until they
> notified me that my server will be shut down and deleted.
> After receiving this notification I checked that indeed my relay server
> was no longer reachable.
> Some time passed by until I had time to setup my old relay (same identiy
> key) on the new server. Done so I launched it and was happy to enjoy the
> increased bandwidth.
> What I missed was that in the meantime the old server was reactivated by
> the hosting provider without notifying me and as a result was running at
> the same time as the new one for about half a day.
>
> After I recognised this, I tried to ssh to the old server - which still
> worked perfectly and indeed confirmed that everything was as I left it.
> I shut down the relay running on the old server and wrote an e-mail to
> the hosting provider checking if they are going to charge me the
> reactivation and why the hell reactivated it.
> Up until now I only got an response that my old server was "shut down"
> and that the "hard disk was deleted on the 29.01.2015" ...
>
> .. I thought well ... since I can still ssh to that server I kinda doubt
> that this is the case.
> So since I still had ssh access to the "shut down server" I decided to
> setup another relay on the "deleted hard disk" of this machine until
> they believe me that there exists a small possibility that this thing is
> still running ...
> The "ghost" relay [2] is running fine up until now.
>
> [1]
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/5A9B5923F4937C3ED76B0AD4CF1030C11FCAF1FA
> [2] http://www.webtropia.com/index.php
> [3]
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/23C31DBBEB898145D6E090D6DD8C06D72E55F972
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