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<p>Hello fellow operators</p>
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<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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