On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:47:56PM +0000, nusenu wrote:
sounds alarming if people operating tor's key infrastructure do not care (or have not enough time to care)
Well, we are working on a variety of approaches now for fixing it. Some in the short term (get more bwauths, fix bugs), some in the long term (make and deploy better design for computing weights).
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2015-May/005774....:
WARNING: The following directory authorities are not reporting bandwidth scanner results: tor26
If one more bw auth goes down, all relays will get the unmeasured flag, because the threshold of 3 votes is no longer reached, is that understanding of the spec correct?
No, I believe if there are only two dir auths who express weight opinions in their votes, then the group collectively backs off to using self-advertised weights.
current stats: 2015-05-19 19:00: 1367 unmeasured ("lost" ~1000 relays and 10GBit/s bw since 2015-05-01)
We also took some steps in the past few weeks to cut out extra tiny relays. It would be good for somebody to track a list of what those events were.
I don't mean to say that we lost zero relays due to the above issue; but I think an unknown number of them are better explained by other events in the network.
--Roger