[tor-relays] Node families and guard flags

Roman Mamedov rm at romanrm.net
Thu Sep 15 17:43:11 UTC 2016


On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 19:39:07 +0200
Ralph Seichter <tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de> wrote:

> On 15.09.2016 18:40, Markus Koch wrote:
> 
> > 100%  normal. Welcome to tor.
> > No, no clue why ;)
> 
> I was contemplating possible security considerations behind this. One
> particular person or organization responsible for the administration of
> multiple guards, when guards are sensitive because users connect to them
> directly... That sort of thing.
> 
> The alternative might be messed up node configurations, so I thought I'd
> better ask. ;-)

It is normal to run multiple nodes in one family and have most or all of them
get the Guard flag. I don't see why two specifically must be any special
(unless you mean both on the same IP?).

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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