[tor-relays] Planning a relay

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Sat Dec 6 11:29:24 UTC 2014


On 12/05/2014 10:57 PM, Austin Bentley wrote:
> The main reason we strive for stable, rock-solid relays is for
> connectivity. If you have ever used SSH/IRC via Tor, you know how
> annoying it is when you get disconnected. This is likely because one of
> the 3 relays went offline. I would say a machine that goes offline every
> 2-4 days would be beyond acceptable;

I do follow closely the latest hardened Gentoo linux kernel, therefore I do reboot every 1-2 weeks (when is KPatch/K>Graft alive ???).
For that I shutdown Tor "gracefully" (--signal INT -R 60). I wa in the mood, that this would mean, that Tor closes their connections gracefully, so a new relay will "replace" my current tor relays connections :-/

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