[tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

[Yawning Angel]

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:32:18 +0100
Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > I question the usefulness of most of the relays running on
> > residential lines in the first place for other reasons (Eg: most
> > consumer routers are crap, and will probably not be able to
> > simultaneously maintain a connection to every single other relay +
> > bridge, which is rather unhealthy to the network overall.  Being
> > able to measure this and delist/reduce consensus weight here would
> > be good as well.).
> 
> It seems my relay at home is doing quite well (but my IP even if not
> static has never changed so far so it's not very relevant to the
> discussion).
> It currently has 5763 open tcp connections in the tor container, 3116
> are to my port 9001 (mix of guard and other relays I believe) and I
> guess the 2647 others are outgoing to other relays.
> 
> It seems the router is a
> http://enterprise.zte.com.cn/en/products/network_lnfrastructure/cpe/broadband/201404/t20140418_422573.html
> rebranded by my ISP and it has no problem with that amount of NAT.

Grats, you have a semi-useful router.  Do you want a cookie?

Anecdotal evidence that things appear to be working fine isn't all that
helpful here.  Basically, there should be code to deal with relays
running behind things on lists like this:

https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_routers#Due_to_.28too.29_many_connections

So they don't do horrible things to the network.  If your router is
working, then great, it meets what should be a minimum standard of
usefulness.

-- 
Yawning Angel
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