[tor-relays] [OT] ExcludeNodes no longer working

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Nick Mathewson:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:
>> Nick Mathewson:
>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Scott,
>>>>
>>>> It is nice to see you posting again, I had wondered where you had gone.
>>>>
>>>> Scott Bennett:
>>>>>      I know this really belongs on tor-talk, but I haven't been subscribed
>>>>> to it for a long time now.  Sorry if posting this here bothers anyone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Seems like a fine place to discuss relay problems, which is what it
>>>> sounds like, no?
>>>
>>> Maaybe!  The very best place would be the bugtracker, of course. (I do
>>> seem to recall that you have some issues with trac -- I'm just
>>> mentioning the bugtracker so that other people don't get the idea that
>>> the mailing lists are the best place for bug reports.  But a bug
>>> report on the mailing list is much much better than no bug report at
>>> all.)
>>>
>>
>> Oh, I don't mean to imply not to file bugs but rather, if we have a
>> guard that fails circuits, I'd say we should discuss it openly. Is it a
>> load issue? Or something else?
> 
> We should definitely discuss stuff openly, yeah.  It was the possible
> ExcludeNodes bug that seemed most like an issue that would go well
> with the bugtracker to me.

Agreed - that said - I like the idea of a client telling users that a
given guard is failing a lot of circuits - is there anyway today that we
can start to learn the distribution of those failures? Say with some
useful client side logging?

All the best,
Jake