[tor-relays] Home broadband - worth running a relay?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:13:09PM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:03:58 +0000, Gordon Morehouse wrote:
> > It'd be nice if dynamic DNS could solve this somehow, but it can't with
> > the current implementation.  :/
> 
> Even if - it wouldn't help those users that have an open connection
> through the bridge (or relay) while it does change IP address.
> 
> I don't like my ssh sessions severed...

Relays that don't have sufficient mean-time-between-failure don't get the
Stable flag, and streams whose destination ports are in the LongLivedPorts
list avoid relays that don't have the Stable flag.

  V(LongLivedPorts,              CSV,
        "21,22,706,1863,5050,5190,5222,5223,6523,6667,6697,8300"),

Currently moria1 is voting 1068997 seconds for the MTBF threshold,
i.e. a bit over 12 days.

So dynamic relays can still be useful, and hopefully we won't end up
cutting too many ssh sessions.

--Roger