[tor-relays] new (to me, at any rate) message

[Scott Bennett]

     On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:47:30 +0100 Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net>
wrote:
>On Dec 4, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>>     About an hour and a half ago, my node issued the following message.
>> 
>> Dec 04 04:03:56.685 [warn] Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR or non-edge circuit.
>> 
>> What does it mean?  And what triggers it?  Is it attempting to use a relay
>> listed in the directory and consensus, but finding that that relay's status
>> has changed since the consensus?
>
>This is a message frequently seen on relays for a while now, due to a
>bug in hidden service usage in 0.2.3.x clients. See
>https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4171 for what we know
>about it. Basically, it doesn't indicate a problem with the relay, but
>rather the Tor client that uses the relay. Thus, we will soon go ahead

     Yes, I had gathered that much.

>and stop logging this at default log levels, and also fix it on the
>client side.
>
     Urrgh...  It looks like you and Robert have a good handle on it, so
I won't worry about it if I see it again.  Thanks much, Sebastian!


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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