On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:32:18 +0100 Pascal Terjan pterjan@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
I question the usefulness of most of the relays running on residential lines in the first place for other reasons (Eg: most consumer routers are crap, and will probably not be able to simultaneously maintain a connection to every single other relay + bridge, which is rather unhealthy to the network overall. Being able to measure this and delist/reduce consensus weight here would be good as well.).
It seems my relay at home is doing quite well (but my IP even if not static has never changed so far so it's not very relevant to the discussion). It currently has 5763 open tcp connections in the tor container, 3116 are to my port 9001 (mix of guard and other relays I believe) and I guess the 2647 others are outgoing to other relays.
It seems the router is a http://enterprise.zte.com.cn/en/products/network_lnfrastructure/cpe/broadban... rebranded by my ISP and it has no problem with that amount of NAT.
Grats, you have a semi-useful router. Do you want a cookie?
Anecdotal evidence that things appear to be working fine isn't all that helpful here. Basically, there should be code to deal with relays running behind things on lists like this:
https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_routers#Due_to_.28too.29_many_connections
So they don't do horrible things to the network. If your router is working, then great, it meets what should be a minimum standard of usefulness.