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Dear teor,
First, my apologies! We've had some issues with Cogent as a peer of late, though I didn't realize it was impacting our Tor efforts. Ugh.
Second, I'm going to turn this over to the Engineering team here. We will shift things about for the bwauth.torproject.org server to provide better connectivity. That may take a bit, but it will be a priority.
Third, we can easily stand up something on 38.229.70.2. Was this one of your servers, or one of ours? Do you recall?
I am about to jump on a plane to London, so I'll be offline for a few hours. I'll ensure this is handed-off to someone who remains in contact with you, teor.
Again my apologies, and we're on it!
Thank you! Rob.
On 2/26/17 8:34 PM, teor wrote:
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/BwAutho
rity/aggregate.py#n323
[2]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torflow.git/tree/NetworkScanners/BwAuthori ty/bwauthority_child.py#n51
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