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<p>Hi Eddie</p>
<p>Yes I saw your post on the day it happened and guessed that we
are suffering from exactly the same issue that started at exactly
the same time. <br>
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<p>I couldn't correlate the loss of stable flag with anything in
recent Tor server releases but I am going to recheck those; I am
currently working my way back through the consensus voting lists
in the run-up to the 14th October to try and understand where the
problem started,</p>
<p>I'll report back here.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
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<p>W<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/10/21 18:57, Eddie wrote:<br>
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Since Georg opened that (on my behalf) I too have lost the Stable
flag.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/29/2021 9:10 AM, Mighty Wang
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<p>Hello fellow operators</p>
<br>
<p>I have one pretty large relay, MIGHTYWANG which is an IP4/6
guard, dedicated hardware running on a 1Gb line uncontended.
It is usually one of the top 5 relays by consensus weight but
on the morning of 14th October it lost Guard status on account
of losing the stable flag. </p>
<p>I checked logs, connectivity and server health - nothing
unusual, everything is generally pretty bullet proof in and
around the relay and it had been running for well over a year
without a reboot - just the very occasional Tor daemon restart
following upgrades but no such activity prior to the 14th.</p>
<p>So next I checked the consensus and I see that around half of
the directory authorities seem to be not assigning the stable
flag. See attached screenshot showing current consensus.<br>
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<p>The peering to each of those relays seems OK from what I can
see (IP4 and IP6) so any idea what gives?</p>
<p>I've got a MIGHTYWANG sitting here twiddling it's thumbs
because have the directory authorities don't want to use it.
Bit of a waste.</p>
<p>I had similar things happen a few years ago with one of my
old relays; again no obvious reason, just seemed to be the a
random whim of the directory authorities.</p>
<p>I've noticed a couple of other long term relays are in a
similar position - is this some time of attack, deliberate
action or just Tor magic? </p>
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<p>Wang</p>
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