This happened to me as well this week. I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed. But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new. Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, node47@torsrv.de wrote:
Dear all,
I have the following problem: My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before). I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in torrc to /var/lib/tor
When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint. The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and the old flags/status.
Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to correct the relaysearch?!
Best regards from Germany Max
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