Hi,
On 24 May 2019, at 11:41, Keifer Bly keifer.bly@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, so I believe I found the problem. In my torrc file, there was a rogue line which read "PublishServerDescriptor" with nothing after it. I removed this line and restarted the relay, now it is saying "May 24 01:38:16.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. May 24 01:38:20.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done."
So it seems this solved the problem.
It looks like your relay changed keys about 2 hours ago: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/torworld
If you keep changing your relay keys, it won't be used very much.
Now, I am also wondering, is there a tool that can be used to automatically update tor? Thank you.
Yes!
From my last email:
When I tried updating tor I got a message saying that was the newest version.
It looks like you're on Debian or Ubuntu, please follow these instructions to update: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en
May 21 20:01:32.000 [warn] You are running Tor as root. You don't need to, and you probably shouldn't.
I don't know how you are configuring and running your relay. Using a guided relay configuration tool might help you. See my suggestion below.
You seem to have a lot of trouble configuring relays manually. You might have a better experience with a guided setup tool, like this Tor Relay role in Ansible: https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor
I really think that something like ansible is your best chance of having a working relay.
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