[tor-relays] restarting tor service after AccountingMax has been reached

[Sebastian Hahn]

> On 20. Dec 2017, at 22:46, Fabian A. Santiago <fsantiago at garbage-juice.com> wrote:
>>> so how i first noticed was when i couldn't browse to my dirport readme html page after a tor
>>> restart. are you saying when it normally hibernates, that page goes down too?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> When Tor hibernates, it doesn't send or receive any data.
>> That includes ORPort and DirPort requests.
> 
> That makes me sad, :-( ;-)

It's the only sensible way Tor can try and limit the bandwidth usage.
Someone repeatedly fetching the page could make you waste tons of
bandwidth otherwise.

Cheers
Sebastian