[tor-relays] Undiagnosable Crashes in Relays

[teor]

> On 26 Mar 2015, at 12:38 , teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:21:50 +0800
>> From: Vincent Yu <v at v-yu.com>
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:26 PM, skyhighatrist <skyhighatrist at tfwno.gf>
>> wrote:
>>> I am wondering if anyone has had their relay randomly crash in the
>>> past
>>> week or so. Three of mine (I run 6, nonexits) have fallen over. One of
>>> them ~5 days ago, one of them ~4 days ago, and one of them earlier
>>> today
>>> .
>> 
>> This also happened to my two relays about three weeks ago. They are:
>> 
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/C309A31AD772FFDD0805C9FECB6D4748A7CBF684
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/18BE989663CF3351F73D33C672BB1C985E0EA5D0
>> 
>> They are both middle/guard relays (about 200 Mbps each) on the 0.2.6
>> branch and are on the same dedicated server. They went down at
>> different times, and as far as I can remember, there was nothing
>> notable in the Tor and system logs. No issues prior to this over the
>> past 12 months. I haven't had time to investigate this.
>> 
> 
> This also happened to my EC2 relay a few weeks ago, but I never had time to investigate.
> It's quite possible it was a bad nightly tor version, or some sort of misconfiguration on my end, but the timing matches.
> I didn't manage to get it to come back up in the limited time I had to try and fix it.
> 
> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/425E55A8FA145ACFC01FA58CD4E6F46DD7762AAB
> (No record, it's been down for a while.)

As a follow-up, Amazon has now informed me that the hardware the instance was on has undergone "irreparable failure". So it appears likely that the tor crashes were hardware-related.


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