On 5 Dec. 2016, at 02:39, Rana ranaventures@gmail.com wrote:
For as little as $10.00 US there are VPS' with static ip's..
Attn: Kurt Besig
Well I kind o' like my Raspberry Pi that cost me $40 including box and power supply and SD card and door to door delivery, with far more horsepower and memory than needed for running Tor relay, and my free and absolutely stable 1.5mbps that I want to donate to Tor courtesy of my ISP, and my transparent Tor proxy and my hidden service and my wireless access point that lurk on the same Pi.
This is not a good reason to punish my relay. Makes ZERO sense to me and to who knows how many people like me whose relays are flushed down the drain by the current DirAuth algorithms.
I can think of many an Iranian or Turkish or Chinese or Russian dissident who could use 1.5 mbps bandwidth to communicate with the free world.
Rana,
Your relay is actually getting about as much traffic as a middle relay of that size should expect.
When you change the IP address, it takes a while to re-establish that traffic, as it should, due to the reasons I mentioned in my original email.
T