My relay seems to gain and lose the stable flag every day for the last several days. It's been up more than a week. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing this on a previous hosting provider and I suspect there is something going on with the network.
I'm thinking of setting the log level to info or debug to try to figure out what is going on. Is that a good idea? Is it likely to be informative?
Thanks
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:28:55PM -0700, Softail wrote:
My relay seems to gain and lose the stable flag every day for the last several days. It's been up more than a week. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing this on a previous hosting provider and I suspect there is something going on with the network.
I'm thinking of setting the log level to info or debug to try to figure out what is going on. Is that a good idea? Is it likely to be informative?
I've not been running my relay for that long, so I don't know if it's common to unexpectedly lose the 'stable' flag. However, do you monitor the machine externally? If so, are there gaps in the data? If not, I'd just try monitoring the connection in a simple way (even just pinging something every minute or so) and see if it goes out to lunch every once in a while.
HTH,
Seems to be doing OK today and my traffic is beginning to pick up, so I may just be over anxious.
My hosting service seems to have some kind of throttle or firewall on ICMP because I can't ping reliably even when I have a perfectly fine SSH connection. If it starts losing the flag again I suppose I could cobble together a script that periodically does a wget from the dirport or something.
Thanks for the thought though.
On 7/24/2011 10:53 PM, Michael Kelly wrote:
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:28:55PM -0700, Softail wrote:
My relay seems to gain and lose the stable flag every day for the last several days. It's been up more than a week. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing this on a previous hosting provider and I suspect there is something going on with the network.
I'm thinking of setting the log level to info or debug to try to figure out what is going on. Is that a good idea? Is it likely to be informative?
I've not been running my relay for that long, so I don't know if it's common to unexpectedly lose the 'stable' flag. However, do you monitor the machine externally? If so, are there gaps in the data? If not, I'd just try monitoring the connection in a simple way (even just pinging something every minute or so) and see if it goes out to lunch every once in a while.
HTH,
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On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:28:55PM -0700, Softail wrote:
My relay seems to gain and lose the stable flag every day for the last several days. It's been up more than a week. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing this on a previous hosting provider and I suspect there is something going on with the network.
Go to https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html and put in your fingerprint and day (e.g. 2011-07-22) and see if your relay is missing from any of the consensus stanzas for the day. If you aren't listed every hour, that means a majority of the directory authorities didn't think you were reachable then.
(If you *are* listed every hour, you might still be going down for a little while, which would be enough to be noted as a failure by the directory authorities.)
--Roger
I appear every hour but it does show the stable flag coming and going. However it's been stable for 30 hours now. Two of the authorities in the consensus health voted me unstable though. I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks for the tip.
On 7/25/2011 7:54 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:28:55PM -0700, Softail wrote:
My relay seems to gain and lose the stable flag every day for the last several days. It's been up more than a week. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing this on a previous hosting provider and I suspect there is something going on with the network.
Go to https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html and put in your fingerprint and day (e.g. 2011-07-22) and see if your relay is missing from any of the consensus stanzas for the day. If you aren't listed every hour, that means a majority of the directory authorities didn't think you were reachable then.
(If you *are* listed every hour, you might still be going down for a little while, which would be enough to be noted as a failure by the directory authorities.)
--Roger
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