[tor-bugs] #5595 [Tor Relay]: Some relays tried to refetch maatuska's new certificate repeatedly

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#5595: Some relays tried to refetch maatuska's new certificate repeatedly
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 Reporter:  rransom    |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect     |         Status:  new
 Priority:  critical   |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Relay  |        Version:     
 Keywords:             |         Parent:     
   Points:             |   Actualpoints:     
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Comment(by koolfy):

 I had 64 of those message on my exit node, and three on my middle node.

 As rransom explained to me, certificates are fetched, not received (as the
 message might indicate), so both of those nodes did something wrong at
 some point. Might the first one being an exit node be the cause of a
 different behaviour ? (I don't know tor specs well enough to comment on
 that.)

 Tor version on both my middle and exit nodes is Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha (git-
 e783afd37ecddc1b)


 Can somebody check on his logs that a similar version of his tor relays
 might have a similar entry ?

 Also, those 64 entries are almost exactly one minute away from eachother,
 and always with "maatuska".
 They happenned between Apr 10 04:06:57.000 and Apr 10 05:12:01.000 and
 have been silent since then.

 On the middle node, the three entries were also about "maatuska", also one
 minute away from each other, and also started around Apr 10 04:14:51.000
 to and at Apr 10 04:16:53.000 since when they remained silent.


 Both of these nodes had an uptime of 4d21h when it happenned. They were
 launched at less than 10m appart from eachother, so it might very well be
 uptime-related somehow, as the difference in uptime matches closely the
 difference in the time at which those messages began.

 Just in case it might be relevant : the middle node is seeing about 10
 times more traffic on average than the exit node.

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