[tor-dev] onionoo: bug in family set detection?

[l.m]

Hello,

DirAuth's can cache multiple versions of the descriptor  and serve
what appears to be the newest in a given consensus interval.  This
coupled with routers publishing descriptors at least every 18  hours,
but potentially sooner. What you describe doesn't appear to  be a bug
in Onionoo because a consensus exists for which the family is 
declared as you describe in the last known good descriptor.

At the moment you describe Atlas doesn't show:

[1] last published 2015-06-02 17:44:27 (and [2] may still have entered
hibernate)
[2] last published 2015-06-02 09:40:45 (and [1] may not be running, or
have a last known good descriptor at DirAuths)

This doesn't take into account the possibility  of a router
hibernating (info not always available) at times between  consensus
taken or valid. A router can be running but unavailable due to 
accounting. This looks like a result of cached descriptors or router 
accounting. The data provided to Onionoo from metrics-lib appears 
accurate as far as network status. At least that's how it looks from a
preliminary glance at the data and spec--although please do your own
verification.

--leeroy

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