On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
Thanks, Sebastian, for the very quick reply. On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:25 +0100 Sebastian Hahn <mail@sebastianhahn.net>wrote:
On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
The last consensus document expired about 15 hours ago. I understand that the authority operators and tor developers are probably occupied with fixing whatever is the trouble, but if someone in that group of individuals can spare a moment to fill us in on what is happening, I, for one, would greatly appreciate it. FWIW, I think a page on the torproject.org web site for very brief status updates on extraordinary situations like this one would be a good and helpful addition. Thanks much, and best of luck getting things working right again.
People are indeed working to restore service. Currently it looks like
Glad to know that.two authorities are completely offline, and a couple others are too overloaded to function properly wrt voting.
Hmm. Will this situation, then, result in a renewed effort to finda few more people to run authorities?
The problem is that in the current situation, it gets worse with more authorities, not better. Our voting mechanism needs an overhaul :/
In the meantime you might like https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html which monitors the consensus.
Thanks for that, too. It's not what I had in mind, but it isinteresting, nonetheless.
what did you have in mind?