[tor-relays] FYI: ISP's and blocked Authorities

[Jeremy Olexa]

Hi Sebastian,

Is there a way to manually check this? I'm curious to why my non-exit
relay, C1B84214, only gets fast/stable/running flags from some
authorities but not all of them, as seen here:
https://consensus-health.torproject.org/

-Jeremy

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian at urbach.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems to be the case that a few ISP's are not up to date and still using
> old IP's to block Authorities. That means if you are able to connect to just
> 1 or 2 Authorities but not to all of them your ISP could be one of those
> candidates.
>
> I saw this behaviour in one case just today. Connectivity with Gabelmoo and
> longclaw was possible but no other Authority was reachable. Gabelmoo
> recently changed the IP and longclaw is brand new afaik. That ISP is clearly
> using an old list of IPs to block Tor for their VPS systems.
>
> What makes it even worse is that this system was going to be a Non-Exit
> relay :-(
>
> I will ask the operator for more details and the good/bad ISP page will be
> updated accordingly. If you can reach some Authorities (not all) and you are
> not getting indexed and measured (also you can't find your system on the
> Atlas / Tor site), this could be the reason why.
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Sincerely yours
>
> Sebastian Urbach
>
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