[tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

[Diarmaid McManus]

Hi Alan,

Family indicates they're all operated by the same person. as you run both
TheCosmos and MilkyWay, they are in the same family.

Please declare so in the .torrc.

Thanks!


On 4 Dec 2016 8:07 PM, "Alan" <tor-relay at clutterbuck.uk> wrote:

In the UK it depends what ISP your on. Virgin Media gives out static ip's
as far as i know. BT (what i'm using) is dynamic, the ip changes every
time the router reboots. It reboots when it detects a fault which is
normally between 2-4 weeks on average.

These are my relays:

TheCosmos (running on home ip (raspberry pi))
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/38B330302F1FB79ED11A468FC9DEA8
960B842B57

MilkyWay (running on Digital Ocean)
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/E856ABA2020AA9C483CC2D9B4C878D
8D948B0887

Does anyone know what the 'Family Members' does and should my relays have
this set?

> In Germany, it's quite usual that you have a dynamic IP and unusual that
> you have static IP. Not just a few relays are located in Germany.  It's
> not just a question of frustration of owners of dynamic IP relay, but also
> a matter of bandwith waste. If Tor cannot handle dynamic IPs properly a
> lot of bandwith is not used. And bandwith is something that the Tor
> network can not get enough of.
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