January 2024 - network-health - lists.torproject.org

Snowflake stats available?
by Rainer Rehak (FIfF) 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Dear team, thank you for your great work. We are a tech NGO from Germany and startet a little campaign here to encourage users to run a snowflake to help circumvent cencorship (e.g. Iran, Russia): https://snowflake.fiff.de/index_en.html Now we get a lot of questions about how many ppl actually do run snowflakes, but on https://metrics.torproject.org we couldn't find any data on snowflake. Could this data be make available or are there reasons for hiding it? Thanks so much Rainer -- Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e. V. Goetheplatz 4, D-28203 Bremen Telefon +49 421 33659255 - Fax +49 421 33659256 E-Mail: fiff(a)fiff.de - https://www.fiff.de - https://twitter.com/fiff_de Unterstützen und Spenden: https://www.fiff.de/about/mitgliedschaft-spenden PGP: https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=rainer.rehak@fiff.de FP: 63D2 9BCB 65CB FA55 F851 BDE3 0CAA 0E82 8193 953E

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New Relay although stats show data for one year
by Stephan 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

Hi tor-team, I just noticed that my relay (https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/B0AD9C3F75C994CEEB9CFC1BD698…) is marked as "newer than 2 weeks" although the graphs show data since 2023-03 and I have not generated a new fingerprint actively. The fingerprint file on the server also did not change (created at 2023-03-06). There are more inconsistencies: First Seen 2024-01-10 16:00:00 (1 day 7 minute and 56 seconds) Last Restarted 2024-01-06 04:02:43 Do you have an idea how this might be? I also noticed that the server restarted itself after > 170 days, but this might be a problem on my side. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Stephan

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[To the maintainers of Tor Metrics] Metrics showing erroneous data for my two relays, can somebody responsible please take a look at the issue?
by George Hartley 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Hello, for about 3 months I have been hosting two Tor relays: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AF42E6C77196A37F041A1A1E953E… https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7F7D1A5BE88FA7C9358955705AE7… After doing system maintenance (mainly upgrading packages), slightly adjusting my "BandwidthRate" and "BandwidthBurst" for both relays and then rebooting the server earlier, the guard relay now shows the following on Metrics, even though the graphs still show the old, correct data: > The first time that this relay was seen in the consensus: 2024-01-10 16:00:00 (8 hours 57 minutes and 21 seconds) This is even though metrics shows an uptime of almost 16 hours?! The fingerprints did not change according to both the metrics page, and the Tor log. I did not delete or mess with each relays DataDirectory or the secret keys. I have a MyFamily setting in both relays configs: > MyFamily $AF42E6C77196A37F041A1A1E953E51B4656BDC1B, $7F7D1A5BE88FA7C9358955705AE7AFA61EEDA2B0 Yet the relays don't show up as being in a family, and Metrics doesn't at all display the other relay counterpart as a family member when visiting the page for the guard or exit. There is also no line in the relays journal (from journalctl -u tor@guard) indicating that the guard relay is new to the network, and it retains its older flags. This only seems to affect my guard relay, the exit metrics page shows mostly valid data, except for the missing family member. Since I did not change anything that would cause this, this is likely a bug with the metrics page, and I would encourage you to look into it. Thank you very much, George

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