I run a tor exit node and have properly configured IPv6 but sometimes it does not appear on the tor relay list. This is fixed when I reboot the tor service but what could be the reason?
tl;dr: Low-load measurements coming; no action needed unless you
would like to opt out.
Hi all,
Next week (week of 2021-05-31), we will be starting a wide-scale
measurement of the latencies between relays on the Tor network for
a research project; these measurements will last an estimated 1-2
months. We have the permission of the Tor Research Safety Board
and this information will ultimately be used to improve the
network. Further, the load at any one time on the Tor network from
these measurements will be limited and negligible (approximately
the same load as the start-up tests of a few new Tor clients).
We are coordinating with the currently-running speed test[1], and
will start our measurements after the conclusion of this speed
test. If you operate a relay and would like to opt out of these
measurements, please send us an email (shortor(a)csail.mit.edu)
including the fingerprint of your relay(s). We will stop sending
you traffic and, if the test has begun, delete past measurements
involving your relay(s). Status updates will be posted
publicly[2], and we will bump this thread before we start and if
anything important changes. Please contact shortor(a)csail.mit.edu
with any questions.
Regards,
Zack Newman (on behalf of the ShorTor team)
[1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-May/019649.html
[2] https://people.csail.mit.edu/zjn/tor.txt
Hello everyone!
Some of you might remember the speed test Rob had been running during
August 2019 to investigate the accuracy of the advertised bandwidth a
relay is reporting in its server descriptor.[1] Back then this involved,
for each relay, downloading several large data streams for a period of
about 20 seconds to get a better estimation of the relay's true capacity
(See: [1] and follow-up emails for the exact details of the experiment).
We plan to do this speed test again in about 1 week and relay operators
can opt-out of it (again) if they want to. We still believe that the
overhead of this speed test is in line with regular usage, but if anyone
doesn't want to participate that's fine. Let us know if so (by replying
to this thread or off-list, if preferred) and we remove your relay(s)
from the list to scan.
Thanks,
Georg
[1]
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-July/017535.htmlff.
What are all the current requirements for a relay to get a
HSDir flag? 96 (97?) hours of uptime and what else?
Can someone tell me what my relay, MYCROFTsOtherChild, is
missing for a HSDir flag?
Thanks in advance for any relevant information.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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