<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Alan,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Family indicates they're all operated by the same person. as you run both TheCosmos and MilkyWay, they are in the same family.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please declare so in the .torrc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks!</div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Dec 2016 8:07 PM, "Alan" <<a href="mailto:tor-relay@clutterbuck.uk">tor-relay@clutterbuck.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the UK it depends what ISP your on. Virgin Media gives out static ip's<br>
as far as i know. BT (what i'm using) is dynamic, the ip changes every<br>
time the router reboots. It reboots when it detects a fault which is<br>
normally between 2-4 weeks on average.<br>
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These are my relays:<br>
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TheCosmos (running on home ip (raspberry pi))<br>
<a href="https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/38B330302F1FB79ED11A468FC9DEA8960B842B57" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://atlas.torproject.org/#<wbr>details/<wbr>38B330302F1FB79ED11A468FC9DEA8<wbr>960B842B57</a><br>
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MilkyWay (running on Digital Ocean)<br>
<a href="https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E856ABA2020AA9C483CC2D9B4C878D8D948B0887" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://atlas.torproject.org/#<wbr>details/<wbr>E856ABA2020AA9C483CC2D9B4C878D<wbr>8D948B0887</a><br>
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Does anyone know what the 'Family Members' does and should my relays have<br>
this set?<br>
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> In Germany, it's quite usual that you have a dynamic IP and unusual that<br>
</div>> you have static IP. Not just a few relays are located in Germany.  It's<br>
<div class="quoted-text">> not just a question of frustration of owners of dynamic IP relay, but also<br>
> a matter of bandwith waste. If Tor cannot handle dynamic IPs properly a<br>
> lot of bandwith is not used. And bandwith is something that the Tor<br>
> network can not get enough of.<br>
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