Hello to all relay operators!
My relay Deepsky (09A70E396DE93F54D4541BBB0EC8E2B23761F34F) has not been receiving the 'Stable' flag from the DA consensus. Up until recently (the past month or so) it had been assigned the full complement of flags. Nothing has been changed on the server and I am not aware of any issues. Would any of the directory authority operators be able to shed light on why some of the DAs are not assigning it the flag?
Thanks!
Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays tor-relays@lists.torproject.org wrote:
My relay Deepsky (09A70E396DE93F54D4541BBB0EC8E2B23761F34F) has not been receiving the 'Stable' flag from the DA consensus. Up until recently (the past month or so) it had been assigned the full complement of flags. Nothing has been changed on the server and I am not aware of any issues. Would any of the directory authority operators be able to shed light on why some of the DAs are not assigning it the flag?
The authority relays have exhibited very unstable behavior for, I think, nearly two years now, as I have pointed out several times on this list. For about three months now, there have been signs of improvement, but the situation is still not terribly stable or predictable. The two flags that appear to me to have been most affected are HSDir and Stable, but Fast has also come and gone occasionally since the instability began. I don't run a Guard relay, so I don't know about that flag's stability, but I would imagine that it would be affected by instability in the Stable and Fast flags. All three flags can come and go, seemingly at random, without regard to uptime of a relay or stability of its own characteristics and network connections. Until a large majority of the authority relays are running versions of tor in which the problematic code has either been fixed or backed out, I expect the problems to continue. AFAIK, the tor project staff has only recently decided that there might be some sort of a problem that they should look into, so the improvements I first began seeing a very few months ago have likely been accidental.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *xor* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
On 11/15/21 20:20, Arlen Yaroslav via tor-relays wrote:
Hello to all relay operators!
My relay Deepsky (09A70E396DE93F54D4541BBB0EC8E2B23761F34F) has not been receiving the 'Stable' flag from the DA consensus. Up until recently (the past month or so) it had been assigned the full complement of flags. Nothing has been changed on the server and I am not aware of any issues. Would any of the directory authority operators be able to shed light on why some of the DAs are not assigning it the flag?
Thanks! _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
How much RAM are you running Tor in your instance? Probably not enough RAM and getting the TCP Out of memory. Would you mind sharing the results of `netstat -st` ?
On Monday, November 15th, 2021 at 21:53, Scott Bennett bennett@sdf.org wrote:
The authority relays have exhibited very unstable behavior
for, I think, nearly two years now, as I have pointed out several
times on this list. For about three months now, there have been
signs of improvement, but the situation is still not terribly
stable or predictable. The two flags that appear to me to have
been most affected are HSDir and Stable, but Fast has also come
and gone occasionally since the instability began. I don't run
a Guard relay, so I don't know about that flag's stability, but
I would imagine that it would be affected by instability in the
Stable and Fast flags. All three flags can come and go, seemingly
at random, without regard to uptime of a relay or stability of its
own characteristics and network connections.
Yes I have also lost the Guard and HSDir flags. I agree with you that these seem to be predicated on gaining the Stable flag, which is my focus for this thread. Basically, most of the DAs do not believe my relay's reported uptime, which at the time of writing is over 12 days. I would like to understand why this is happening. I suspect network issues (routing, peering or socket resources) are at play here but instead of spending time speculating I would prefer if the DA operators could assist me with this. The DAs which are witholding the flag are tor26, gabelmoo, dannenberg, maatuska and bastet.
I also agree with you that there appear to be wider problems with the consensus health overall, but to me the issues have increased noticably in the past few months.
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 at 01:53, dg26 dg26@cock.li wrote:
How much RAM are you running Tor in your instance? Probably not enough
RAM and getting the TCP Out of memory.
2GB of RAM overall and over 500MB still available. Not a RAM issue.
Would you mind sharing the results of `netstat -st` ?
I'd rather not share those kinds of outputs publicly.
tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
-
Arlen Yaroslav -
dg26 -
Scott Bennett