Hello.
I recently set up a new relay, jaffacakemonster2, I would be grateful if someone could answer some questions for me.
1. The bandwidth on Atlas is listed as "0". Is this a wait a few days/new relay issue or a configuration issue. I was surprised to find exit relays are default now, I hope I didn't disable too much so to speak.
2. My family on Atlas - the little numbers in brackets are not all the same, I only run two relays, however on the listings it reports sometimes two sometimes three. Are you meant to include "yourself" in the torrc or only other relays??
Thanks.
On 2/16/18 08:11, Gary wrote:
Hello.
I recently set up a new relay, jaffacakemonster2, I would be grateful if someone could answer some questions for me.
- The bandwidth on Atlas is listed as "0". Is this a wait a few
days/new relay issue or a configuration issue. I was surprised to find exit relays are default now, I hope I didn't disable too much so to speak.
It's 0 because you're a new relay and haven't been measured yet.
All you need to do to stop being an exit is "ExitRelay 0" in your torrc. What else did you disable?
- My family on Atlas - the little numbers in brackets are not all the
same, I only run two relays, however on the listings it reports sometimes two sometimes three. Are you meant to include "yourself" in the torrc or only other relays??
Relays can include themselves in their MyFamily. It doesn't hurt and doesn't cause issues.
Right now I only see 2 on jaffacakemonster2 and 1 on jaffacakemonster. Seeing 3 would be weird, because in order for a pair of relays to be in the same family, they must both list each other in their torrcs.
Thank you for running a relay. If you haven't read this blog post yet, you may want to.
https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay
Matt
Matt Traudt:
It's 0 because you're a new relay and haven't been measured yet.
The advertised bandwidth is not 0 because this is an unmeasured relay, most unmeasured relays have a non-zerro adv. bw. example: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/773E813FDDBFC985B3D436CF669B572601C00F...
Only the consensus_weight is capped at 20 for unmeasured relays.
Hi thanks for getting back to me.
Right now I only see 2 on jaffacakemonster2 and 1 on jaffacakemonster. Seeing 3 would be weird, because in order for a pair of relays to be in the same family, they must both list each other in their torrcs.
My family thing has settled now, I think this was because I changed the name from "jaffacakemonster" to "jaffacakemonster1", havnt looking the Atlas bug too much I guess its because it took a few hours for the changed names to ripple through.
My 2nd relay has a dirport set, 9030, it does not seem to be listed as a dir authority yet, is this again because of the new relay thing (wait a few weeks for it to be measured)?
Thanks.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 04:41:42PM +0000, Gary wrote:
My 2nd relay has a dirport set, 9030, it does not seem to be listed as a dir authority yet, is this again because of the new relay thing (wait a few weeks for it to be measured)?
Two answers:
(1) If you set AccountingMax, or if you have a low enough bandwidth rate, then your relay will opt to not advertise its DirPort. It looks like your bandwidth rate is tiny, so that's probably it. There is a log message as Tor starts that informs you it's making this choice.
(2) The phrase you want is "dir mirror" or "dir server". The directory authorities play a different role, which you can read about here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#KeyManagement
Thanks for running relays! (And, please consider making them bigger. :)
--Roger
On 19 Feb 2018, at 03:41, Gary jaffacakemonster53@gmail.com wrote:
Right now I only see 2 on jaffacakemonster2 and 1 on jaffacakemonster. Seeing 3 would be weird, because in order for a pair of relays to be in the same family, they must both list each other in their torrcs.
My family thing has settled now, I think this was because I changed the name from "jaffacakemonster" to "jaffacakemonster1", havnt looking the Atlas bug too much I guess its because it took a few hours for the changed names to ripple through.
You can avoid depending on nicknames by configuring MyFamily using fingerprints.
Other people can also set up relays with the name "jaffacakemonster1", so fingerprints are best.
T
. My family on Atlas - the little numbers in brackets are not all the same, I only run two relays, however on the listings it reports sometimes two sometimes three. Are you meant to include "yourself" in the torrc or only other relays??
recently I reported a bug in that part of atlas which resulted in incorrect numbers shown in these brackets.
The maintainer of atlas fixed it, you should no longer see incorrect numbers.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25034 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25241
nusenu:
. My family on Atlas - the little numbers in brackets are not all the same, I only run two relays, however on the listings it reports sometimes two sometimes three. Are you meant to include "yourself" in the torrc or only other relays??
recently I reported a bug in that part of atlas which resulted in incorrect numbers shown in these brackets.
The maintainer of atlas fixed it, you should no longer see incorrect numbers.
oh it appears the fix is not actually working as it should, I'll reopen that the bug
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25034 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25241
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