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

[Fabian A. Santiago]

On December 21, 2017 4:26:11 AM EST, Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
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I gotcha. That makes sense. No worries here. Thanks. 
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Thanks,

Fabian S.

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