[tor-bugs] #24841 [Core Tor/Tor]: Your relay has a very large number of connections to other relays. Is your outbound address the same as your relay address?

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#24841: Your relay has a very large number of connections to other relays. Is your
outbound address the same as your relay address?
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 Reporter:  tyng                                 |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.2.8-rc
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  033-triage-20180320,                 |  Actual Points:
  033-removed-20180320                           |
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:15 timkuijsten]:
 > Since I've been starting a couple of new relays as a new relay operator,
 this message occurs now and then in the first couple of days and it made
 me wonder[0]. If we should ignore these numbers as long as they are below
 60, then why show the message before having connected to at least 60
 relays? I would propose to crank MIN_RELAY_CONNECTIONS_TO_WARN from 5 to
 60 (but I'm completely new :)).
 >
 > [0] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-
 relays/2018-August/016037.html

 Thanks for this patch!

 I think this is a good fix, but we could make it better by:
 * counting the number of relays in the consensus, and using 1% of that as
 a minimum
 * if the limit is less than 5, use 5 as the minimum
 * if there is no consensus, use 5 relays as the minimum

 You can find the number of relays in the consensus by doing something
 like:
 {{{
 const networkstatus_t *consensus =
 networkstatus_get_reasonably_live_consensus(now, usable_flavour());
 int n_relays = consensus ? smatlist_len(consensus->routerstatus_list) : 0;
 }}}

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