[tor-relays] Goes the ORPort into "Consensus Weight" calculation ?

teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 04:50:45 UTC 2018


> On 27 Apr 2018, at 11:49, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> For family:D11D11877769B9E617537B4B46BFB92B443DE33D - running at the same IP - I do wonder about the differences of the values 44300 versus 36800 (one is 1 1/2 year, the other is 1/2 year old).

No, the ORPort is not used in the consensus weight calculation.

The consensus weight is measured using randomly selected
pairs of relays, so it can be different for instances on the same
machine.

Also, the consensus weight can be lower if large clients select
your relay as a guard at random.

T


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