[tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 28 Apr 2016, at 19:36, Dr Gerard Bulger <gerard at bulger.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> What if you want to shutdown forever.
> 
> I am in the process of moving mine to another server.  How do I stop tor
> atlas listing the old one?

Turn it off.
The tor consensus will stop listing it within 2 hours.
Clients will stop using it when they find it's down, or within 5 hours.

Tim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf
> Of Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> Sent: 28 April 2016 10:30
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Announcing a shutdown of a relay
> 
> 
>> On 28 Apr 2016, at 19:17, Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner <hello at veloc1ty.de>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi @all,
>> 
>> can I announce the shutdown of my relay to the network so clients
>> select a new guard?
> 
> When you send a SIGINT to tor, tor refuses new circuits, and waits
> ShutdownWaitLength (default 30 seconds) for clients to choose a new guard.
> 
> Tim
> 
> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
> 
> teor2345 at gmail dot com
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