While I understand that my relay lost the guard flag because of a weekend of downtime, I would expect that it would get it back after a while of stable again? Anyone able to shed some light on when it will get the flag back? https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/924B24AFA7F075D059E8EEB284CC4...
Thanks
Hi Matthew,
Matthew Glennon:
While I understand that my relay lost the guard flag because of a weekend of downtime, I would expect that it would get it back after a while of stable again? Anyone able to shed some light on when it will get the flag back? https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/924B24AFA7F075D059E8EEB284CC4...
"Directory authorities assign the Guard flag to relays based on three characteristics: "bandwidth" (they need to have a large enough consensus weight), "weighted fractional uptime" (they need to be working most of the time), and "time known" (to make attacks more expensive, we don't want to give the Guard flag to relays that haven't been around a while first). This last characteristic is most relevant here: on today's Tor network, you're first eligible for the Guard flag on day eight."
I will suggest you to read the lifecycle of the new relay post [1], the Guard FAQ [2] and the guard flag section of the directory protocol [3].
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards [3] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2490
Hope this helps.
Cheers, ~Vasilis
Sorry - that was crass. Thanks for the attempt, but I've read those documents. Specifically, I'm looking into what has changed, if anything. Is it just below the threshold of the Weighted Uptime? (e.g. we have enough Guards?) I asked because I was told that the bwauth issues were holding people back before (because everyone was unmeasured). Since that was resolved but still no guard flag, I was becoming curious.
I'll just sit back and wait some more. Matt
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:23 PM Vasilis andz@torproject.org wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Matthew Glennon:
While I understand that my relay lost the guard flag because of a weekend of downtime, I would expect that it would get it back after a while of stable again? Anyone able to shed some light on when it will get the flag back?
https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/924B24AFA7F075D059E8EEB284CC4...
"Directory authorities assign the Guard flag to relays based on three characteristics: "bandwidth" (they need to have a large enough consensus weight), "weighted fractional uptime" (they need to be working most of the time), and "time known" (to make attacks more expensive, we don't want to give the Guard flag to relays that haven't been around a while first). This last characteristic is most relevant here: on today's Tor network, you're first eligible for the Guard flag on day eight."
I will suggest you to read the lifecycle of the new relay post [1], the Guard FAQ [2] and the guard flag section of the directory protocol [3].
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay [2] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards [3] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2490
Hope this helps.
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Hi,
Matthew Glennon:
Sorry - that was crass. Thanks for the attempt, but I've read those documents. Specifically, I'm looking into what has changed, if anything. Is it just below the threshold of the Weighted Uptime? (e.g. we have enough Guards?) I asked because I was told that the bwauth issues were holding people back before (because everyone was unmeasured). Since that was resolved but still no guard flag, I was becoming curious.
No intention to be crass. This is an open mailing with thousands subscribers and perhaps some people may have similar questions or want to find out how relay flags work.
As an additional resource the guard probability graphs in Tor metrics relay page of be of help to visually get some indications and for reference (perhaps) compare it to other relays.
I hope this may help someone.
Sorry again for any confusion and thanks for running relays.
Cheers, ~Vasilis
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