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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you. I just checked, and my ip address recently changed (I use Charter which assigns dynamic ip addresses). Perhaps this had something to do with it, I am not sure.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the advice, I will try to check with Homebrew on that.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:teor@riseup.net">teor</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 16, 2018 6:49 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [tor-relays] Random Relay Reset On Mac OS + OS Support Question</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> On 17 Aug 2018, at 05:37, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> So something strange happened recently with my relay running on Mac OS via homebrew at https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/DB1AF6477BB276B6EA5E72132684096EEE779D30</p><p class=MsoNormal>> </p><p class=MsoNormal>> Just this morning, my relays uptime had been reset to 0 days. When I checked the software it indeed said the uptime was back to six hours. This is odd as I did not reset thee software within the last 24 hours (that I remember), there was a brief time when my network went down due to an ISP glitch however has been working fine ever since. I am wondering, do newer versions of the tor relay software automatically reset if they detect the internet is unreachable?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The last_restarted time comes from the relay descriptor:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>https://metrics.torproject.org/onionoo.html#details_relay_last_restarted</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And tor relays do not automatically restart if the internet becomes</p><p class=MsoNormal>unreachable.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can check your system uptime using the “uptime” command.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can check your Tor logs for your relay’s uptime.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> I also have one more question, around when does tor / homebrew drop support for older versions of an OS? I am asking this because the computer that runs this relay is a 2011 iMac, and Apple has confirmed it will run the new MacOS coming this year (Movari) however versions of macos afterwards are unconfirmed.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tor supports macOS versions that are still receiving security</p><p class=MsoNormal>updates from Apple.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As an exception, we also support Tor clients on macOS</p><p class=MsoNormal>versions that are supported by Tor Browser (but not Apple).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/SupportedPlatforms#OSSupportlevels</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You should search Homebrew’s website for their support policy.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>T</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>T</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--</p><p class=MsoNormal>teor</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please reply @torproject.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>New subkeys 1 July 2018</p><p class=MsoNormal>PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B</p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>