[tor-relays] Re: the case for relay state persistency

forest-relay-contact--- via tor-relays:

Hello.

Roger Dingledine wrote:

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I was going to offer a quick patch with a new torrc option for configuring what bandwidth you want to claim (see bwhist_bandwidth_assess()), but I realized that if you are willing to do a bit of scripting (and I think you already have some scripting in your tool), crafting a state file which induces a given claimed bandwidth should be easy too.

Does this mean that one solution for the extremely poor consensus weight for non-EU relays is to increase the reported bandwidth in the state file? No. This risks you getting blocked from the network due to the bandwidth inflation attack Roger describes in a previous post to this thread.

Georg