#20611: Relays should log a message when they return a 503 error to a client
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Reporter: teor | Owner: (none)
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Tor: 0.2.8.9
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: easy, tor-relay, logging | Actual Points:
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Comment (by arma):
"a relay operator"?
Tor relays will return 503 when they're close to empty on their rate
limiting, and they don't want to waste bytes on serving a directory object
(that would be an asymmetric use of their last little bit of bandwidth
anyway).
I'm not at all convinced that we should have notice-level logs of whenever
the relay decided it was low on bandwidth. That probably happens every so
often for most relays, and the whole "503, back off" thing is a feature
designed to help us tolerate these situations. Telling the operator is
like asking the operator to do something about it, and that's exactly what
we're trying to avoid with the whole design.
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