On Dienstag, 4. Juni 2024 23:24:50 CEST Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 04:42:50PM +0000, Eldalië via tor-relays wrote:
I have to move somewhere else a a (middle) relay I have been running for a few years. It will be down for 2-4 weeks, then be back online in a different location, with different ISP, at better speed. But it will run on the same hardware and software. Should I keep the same keys, or start from scratch?
Having a relay downtime of 2-4 weeks though could really increase the time until you get flags like Guard back, due to some design flaws in how the directory authorities track stability. (The simple version of the issue is: we treat downtime as much more serious than not-existing-yet.)
Thanks for the info, Roger.
@Eldalië If you want to keep your history on Tor metrics, go with the old keys. If you generate new keys and have a new IP, you can let your relay run as a bridge for a few weeks or months and then reconfigure it later. That would be very helpful, especially if the IP is accessible from Turkmenistan. It's been a year, but internet censorship is still there: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-help-turkmens-to-bypass-internet-c...