[tor-relays] BWauth no-consensus state in effect

[Tom Ritter]

Thanks for the heads up!

A fifth bwauth is expected to start voting "real soon now", and I'm
not sure why maatuska didn't vote on bwauth data last vote, but I've
pinged some folks so hopefully we can get this resolved quickly.

-tom

On 30 July 2015 at 12:04,  <starlight.2015q2 at binnacle.cx> wrote:
> FYI list
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16696
>
> Description
>
> At present both 'longclaw' and 'maatuska' have
> dropped out of the BW consensus ('longclaw'
> is restarting with new version, not sure
> about 'maatuska').
>
> This has caused the BW consensus logic to revert
> to using relay self-measurement for BW weightings
> due to fewer than three BW authorities participating.
>
> The 10000 cap placed on self-measure values
> is causing super-fast relays serious demotion
> and slower relays corresponding promotion
> in the consensus weighting.
>
> Possibly this may result in network
> unbalance issues. Some adjustment
> of the logic seems in order.
>
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