[tor-relays] MyFamily and ContactInfo fields are required for operators running multiple tor instances

Charly Ghislain charlyghislain at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 15:27:39 UTC 2018


If my relay running at ip A is also available, although not advertised, at
ip B, should I bother with MyFamily settings?

This may happen if the relay is running as service in a docker swarm.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro at demfloro.ru>
wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:02:42 +0100
> Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net> wrote:
>
> > > On 11. Jan 2018, at 20:44, Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro at demfloro.ru>
> > > wrote:
> > >>>    MyFamily **must** be set correctly if you run more than one
> > >>> relay or bridge. (That is, every relay should list all the others
> > >>> as described above.)
> > >
> > > So if I run some relays and also some bridges I must to specify
> > > unhashed fingerprints of the bridges in MyFamily in configs of all
> > > my relays?
> >
> > No. That's harmful. Never list bridge fingerprints in MyFamily. I have
> > reopened the closed bug report[0] because the man page now gives this
> > harmful advice (and actually contradicts itself). Let's hope it gets
> > fixed quickly.
> >
> > [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24526
> >
>
> Yeah, thats why I asked. Thanks for the answer.
>
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