[tor-relays] Dir flags disappearing

[Spencer Rhodes]

I believe I found the cause of the disappearance of the Directory flags on my router. I had set the AccountingMax feature. Apparently, this disables the Directory port and generates a notice-level message:

"Not advertising DirPort (Reason: AccountingMax enabled)"

After commenting out the feature, the Directory port came back online.


On August 13, 2014 3:21:36 PM EDT, Spencer Rhodes <spencer at rhodespa.com> wrote:
>Hi Matt,
>
>Thanks for the quick reply. The servers did not show because I had
>commented out the Nickname line in /etc/tor/torrc after seeing a notice
>in arm that it was redundant (presumably because it is identical to the
>hostname). Apparently, not redundant after all as it is necessary for
>proper listing on the torstatus servers…
>
>So, I browsed to your suggested URL and verified that for my server
>which does show the Directory flags, it returns a bunch of data:
>http://99.28.48.185/tor/status-vote/current/consensus, but for the
>server which is now lacking the flags, nothing is returned:
>http://80.240.141.246/tor/status-vote/current/consensus.
>
>As far as I know, these servers are identically configured apart from
>the nicknames, fingerprints, and bandwidth. And as I said, initially
>both servers showed Directory flags. I am running on Debian, and so
>tried "service for restart” without effect. Hate to have to reinstall
>to get Directory services up again…
>
>Best regards,
>Spencer
>
>On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:28 PM, tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org
>wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> From: Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Directory Server Issue
>> Date: August 13, 2014 at 12:08:58 PM EDT
>> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>> Reply-To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:32:45AM -0400, Spencer Rhodes wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have a server (triratna) which I recently put up, which operates
>on ports 80 and 443, and which initially showed a Directory Server
>flag. After several days of operation, however, the directory flag
>disappeared from both the torstatus listing and from the arm display on
>the console.
>>> 
>>> I would like to know if there is a way to verify that directory
>services are in fact working, and if so, determine why the server is
>not flagged properly. I found some old postings to the effect that one
>could browse to server://tor or server://tor/status/all, but this does
>not seem to be true any more.
>> 
>> Hi Spencer,
>> 
>> This should still work. Try using
>> http://<ip address>:<DirPort>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus
>> to fetch the current consensus. You can also fetch individual relay
>> descriptors using a similar URI. 
>> 
>> If you provide your relay fingerprint someone may be able to help
>> further. I tried looking up the name you gave, but I couldn't find
>> it in either Globe[0] nor Atlas[1].
>> 
>> Thanks for running a relay!
>> 
>> - Matt
>> 
>> 
>> [0] https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=triratna
>> [1] https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/triratna
>> 
>> 

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