Not advertising DirPort (Reason: AccountingMax enabled)

[Sebastian Hahn]

On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:37 AM, tazoi wrote:

> Hi all,
> i'm running a tor node release 0.2.1.29 and using the AccountingMax
> option basically to collect statistics on bandwith usage, i'm not
> interested in blocking traffic after it reaches a threshold (i'm using
> RelayBandwidthRate to rate-limit the traffic). So i set the value of
> AccountingMax to a huge number (related to my limited bandwidth),
> then i wrote a munin plugin to graph the traffic collected via the
> control port (http://exchange.munin-monitoring.org/plugins/tor-bandwidth-usage/ 
> ).
>
> The problem is that if AccountingMax is set, the DirPort is not
> advertised: do you know if there is an option to enable the Accounting
> without setting a Max value in order to act as a directory and have  
> the
> accounting statistics?
>
> I'd like to see implemented an AccountingEnabled boolean option (or  
> it's
> already in place but I ignore it?).
>
> -tazoi

Hi tazoi,

thanks for your concern. There currently isn't such an option, but maybe
one will be implemented in Tor 0.2.3.x (see
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2434 for progress on the
implementation). For now, you can just ignore the message as there
is no real harm done.

Sebastian