On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:42:18PM +0000, John Ricketts wrote:
When looking at my list on Atlas (21 entries) I'm seeing that some of my relays are getting the Guard flag before they become stable.
https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/quintex
I'm going to make the assumption this is normal behavior but I still find it odd.
I agree that this particular behavior is odd. In fact, we put in a fix to prevent it from happening:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=tor-0.2.9.4-alpha#n6... https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18624
But that fix is only in 0.2.9.1-alpha, and 7 of the 8 directory authorities are still on 0.2.8.x. So they'll get it when they upgrade (which will be a ways after 0.2.9.x goes stable probably).
As for why the Stable flag is confusingly assigned, teor's answer is a good one.
--Roger