<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>David Goulet or Georg Koppen:</div><div><br></div><div>Can either of you confirm my question regarding whether <span>the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I need to verify the best way to configure cloned, loadbalanced Tor Relay Instances to interface with DirectoryAuthorities.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Presently, I have 5 Asuswrt RT-AC66U_B1 (2 Core CPU + 256MB) WiFi Routers (1 as Nginx Loadbalancer + 4 AiMesh Nodes) schizophrenicly configured as cloned Tor Relay Nodes pushing ~175GB (~10,000 circuits) of Tor traffic, daily, which is working very well for such a small footprint.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>With this final piece sorted, I'll be able to contribute a tutorial for loadbalancing Tor Relays, which can be extrapolated to larger, high-availability architectural implementations that appear as a single Tor Node (opposed to having several Tor Nodes that comprise a family).</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Your feedback is greatly appreciated.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Respectfully,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Gary</span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1signature">—<br>This Message Originated by the Sun.<br>iBigBlue 63W Solar Array (~12 Hour Charge)<br>+ 2 x Charmast 26800mAh Power Banks<br>= iPhone XS Max 512GB (~2 Weeks Charged)</div></div>
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On Monday, October 18, 2021, 2:10:12 AM MDT, Gary C. New via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013"><div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div></div></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yahoo_quoted" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yahoo_quoted_5128009567"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">All:</span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><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 clear="none"></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><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="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><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="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">As always, thank you for all the work you do.</span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">Respectfully,</span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">Gary</span></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">—</span><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqt8567230346" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013ydpdef04c35yqtfd34824"><span style="color:rgb(29, 34, 40);font-size:16px;">This Message Originated by the Sun.</span><br clear="none" 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 clear="none" 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 clear="none" 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><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013yqt4544822010" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013yqtfd15404"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div><div class="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013yqt4544822010" id="ydpf7ad2da1yiv3419036013yqtfd09219">
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