[tor-relays] Flipping from guard and back again

12xBTM 12xbtm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 14:32:45 UTC 2015


Your bandwidth is too low. Guards must be in the top 25% of the network
by bandwidth, and that's currently in the mid 2MBps.  Your node is right
on that cusp, so it's going to continue to have a flickering guard node
flag.

On 23.9.15 5:03, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
> 
>> On 23 Sep 2015, at 18:49, 29230912 at tutanota.com
>> <mailto:29230912 at tutanota.com> wrote:
>>
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/113FCC01A29B4600A8BAA1CB72E6AB1FD899AC92
>>
>> Any pointers about why my relay is flipping between guard and not guard?
> 
> There are 8 authorities, and 4 think your relay should be a guard.
> Whenever a 5th joins them, your relay is a guard, when it doesn’t, your
> relay isn’t.
> 
> See the entry in
> https://consensus-health.torproject.org/consensus-health.html
> 
> There are a number of factors involved in guard selection:
> * Your bandwidth seems to fluctuate, which could cause the guard flag to
> fluctuate as well. Unfortunately, the guard flag then causes your
> bandwidth to fluctuate. So it’s hard to tell what the cause is here, and
> whether the relay’s Guard flag is in some kind of bandwidth-driven loop.
> Have you looked at the bwauth votes for your relay?
> * Your uptime is ok (for the last month).
> * There could be other factors.
> 
> Give it a week or so to stabilise, or, alternately, limit the bandwidth
> to stop it fluctuating so much.
> 
> Tim (teor)
> 
> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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