[tor-relays] Flipping from guard and back again

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but you shouldnt be concerned, its ok
if your relay looses guard flag it acts as middle
so no worrys, youre just fine (:

 
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2015 16:32 schrieb 12xBTM 
<12xbtm at gmail.com>:
 
> 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)
>> 
>> teor2345 at gmail dot com
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>> 
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