On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:12:36 -0400 Nick Mathewson nickm@freehaven.net wrote:

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Steve Snyder swsnyder@snydernet.net wrote:

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On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:12pm, "Jacob Appelbaum" jacob@appelbaum.net said: [snip]

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It seems that there are two issues - one is that a guard is failing to build circuits, the other is that you can't seem to exclude them. I have to admit, I'm more interested in the former... Is there a pattern to the failures?

I get those same messages occasionally. The following are from last week (v0.2.3.20-rc), seen from a Los Angeles datacenter. I haven't seen this rate of complaint before or since so I wrote it off as a fluke.

Sep 01 05:20:31.000 [notice] Low circuit success rate 3/21 for guard BramaH4=39A0907D409836D7F014364C5FF5AC1DA79E0289. Sep 01 05:21:52.000 [notice] Low circuit success rate 6/21 for guard TORy2=F08F537D245A65D9C242359983718A19650A25F7.

This looks like bug #6475. Those warnings should be suppressed in 0.2.3.31-rc and fixed for real in 0.2.4.x.

^^ Yikes. I do hope that was a typo.

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