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

[Scott Bennett]

     On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:12:36 -0400 Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net>
wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:12pm, "Jacob Appelbaum" <jacob at appelbaum.net> said:
>> [snip]
>>> It seems that there are two issues - one is that a guard is failing to
>>> build circuits, the other is that you can't seem to exclude them. I have
>>> to admit, I'm more interested in the former... Is there a pattern to the
>>> failures?
>>
>> I get those same messages occasionally.  The following are from last week (v0.2.3.20-rc), seen from a Los Angeles datacenter.  I haven't seen this rate of complaint before or since so I wrote it off as a fluke.
>>
>> Sep 01 05:20:31.000 [notice] Low circuit success rate 3/21 for guard BramaH4=39A0907D409836D7F014364C5FF5AC1DA79E0289.
>> Sep 01 05:21:52.000 [notice] Low circuit success rate 6/21 for guard TORy2=F08F537D245A65D9C242359983718A19650A25F7.
>
>This looks like bug #6475.  Those warnings should be suppressed in
>0.2.3.31-rc and fixed for real in 0.2.4.x.
       ^^  Yikes.  I do hope that was a typo.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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