Scott Bennett bennett@sdf.org wrote:
Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org top-posted:
Georg Koppen:
mikefloyd2:
Following further decline of my server's consensus weight, I looked around a bit. I found some more servers that show similar behavior in the graphs shown on the Metrics website:
- https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/01729F10A81DDD8A92D770B213308...
- https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/010B7728454411F485CE29D4C79A1...
- https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1E5136DDC52FAE1219208F0A6BADB...
- https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/899D1D12BBF6ED445048CB302C0F1...
- https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/00DCAEAE3E54C32809E7F7CC4BF2A...
Alright, that's useful, thanks! I've added those links to our ticket[1] in case we need further data in order to track the problem down and fix it.
As a general note: I asked the operator of bastet to switch back to Torflow as soon as possible, so that Torflow-backed bandwidth authorities have a majority again in our network. That should mitigate the immediate problem and get all your relays back to appropriate consensus weights (unless there are sbws-unrelated bugs preventing that). Additionally, it gives us time to track down this bug and properly fix it.
We think we found the problem and fixed it. Again, thanks to everyone who reported this problem. After some testing we decided it would be save if bastet's bandwidth authority switched over to sbws again. This happened with the 1600 UTC vote. Please keep your eyes open in case there are more critical bugs lurking and if you find any issue do not hesitate to report it.
I also note that once my relay's weighting returned to its previously normal range,the HSDir flag returned intermittently for a day or two for the first time since late last year and has been present continuously (AFAIK) ever since. That allows my relay to provide a bit more utility to the network once again.
And now I see that I wrote too soon. A new consensus arrived, and in it my relay is once again missing the HSDir flag. So we're back to the SOS again. Sigh.
Scott Bennett