Hi Rob and bandwidth authority operators, I've just been contacted by an Exit operator whose Exits have all seen a 60% drop in traffic over the last few weeks. This drop has been caused by a drop in bandwidth authority measurements, which seems to affect Exit connections that transit to bwauth.torproject.org (cymru) through Cogent. For example, from Australia, I get about 3 MB/s to bwauth.torproject.org [0]. A relay operator in France gets 500 KB/s. This affects at least Online S.a.ss, Feralhosting, and trabia. Do we want Exit traffic concentrating in the US? (It seems all the affected networks are UK/EU.) Is there any way that we can fix this? It also has a social impact: there are a number of disappointed exit operators out there. Can someone run another bwauth HTTPS download server on another (non-North American?) network? The required files are listed here[1]. If they did, would the bandwidth authority operators apply a patch to use it? Or could it go on 38.229.70.2 ? (That's the alternate bwauth address in the source code[2], but it's down.) [0]: https://bwauth.torproject.org/bwauth.torproject.org/64M [1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/a... [2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/b... T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org ------------------------------------------------------------------------