I too am experiencing a recent and significant drop in bandwidth, and have previously had problems gaining and losing the guard flag repeatedly (though not recently).

I wonder if these issues are somehow connected, or if there is some kind of new attack/exploit that decreases relay consensus to allow e.g. a Sybil attack to be more viable.

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/18EAAF7CB6C2ABE8583841D305C06A509F8C1C...

On 04/08/2015 04:03 PM, Tim Sammut wrote:

Hi.

My relatively new, non-exit relay has seen its consensus weight fraction drop and a corresponding substantial drop in traffic.

https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/83F56335F5E3615B8855EEC7AA5D6A0BAD010C...

It briefly had and then lost the guard flag, so I don't believe the drop as described in [1]. Is it being affected by the bwauth issues talked about in [2] and [3]? If so, is there a remedy?

Thank you!

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay [2] http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/4913/my-exit-node-suddenly-lost-all-o... [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-January/006055.html

hope you are well t