Thanks Sebastian, That explains the loss of guard status back in August at least. I totally missed that announcement.
Back to the main issue, it does look like one or two others at least are having this problem. Is it simply as a result of being in a Lizard-blacklisted netblock? Bigbud is in 85.119.0.0/16. Is the current Lizard-blacklist published or is it only known to the directory authorities?
thanks
BB
Hi,
Found the snippet with the changes for the guards:
Tor Weekly News, 30th of July 2014
Once directory authorities have upgraded, they will “assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the network”. Some experiments showed that “for the current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.”
-- Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations
Sebastian Urbach