<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpdef04c35yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div></div></div><div id="ydpdef04c35yahoo_quoted_5128009567" class="ydpdef04c35yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">All:</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">Are the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance? I recently ran into an issue where my Tor Relay Farm went down, due to the manually configured DirectoryAuthority going down and the FallbackDir didn't seem to back it up.</span><br></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">I know that the </span><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives were intended to be used in a private Tor network, but as I'm running a Tor Relay Farm where all Tor Relay Nodes use a cloned .tordb–I need all the Tor Relay Nodes to talk to the same </span><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir.</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">Other than the </span><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">DirectoryAuthority going down and a Medium-Term key update, loadbalancing to a Tor Relay Farm has been working very well for a month or so. Although, the fundamental Tor Relay client-based push reporting vs DirectoryAuthority server-based pull reporting doesn't lend itself well to accurately reporting Tor Metrics for a Tor Relay Farm. The DirectoryAuthority observers the Tor Farm based on the individual Tor Relay Node that last reported, so Tor Metrics are only shown for a single Tor Relay Node; while, in reality the Tor Relay Farm is doing x4 - x5 the reported load. Knowing this, you might reconsider the way metrics are reported in the future to accurately report loadbalanced Tor Relays.</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">As always, thank you for all the work you do.</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">Respectfully,</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">Gary</span></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">—</span><br></div><div class="ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">This Message Originated by the Sun.</span><br style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge)</span><br style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">+ 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks</span><br style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-size: 16px;">= iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)</span><br></div></div></div>
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