[tor-relays] Trying to set up a relay at home, but get no connections

[Keifer Bly]

One thought. Try making sure you are running the newest version of the tor software. I say this because I know directory authorities recently started rejecting relays running older versions of tor. Another thing I might check if possible is if your router has a limit for how many simultaneous connections it can handle as if your router has a limit in this, this can cause issues with running a tor server as tor can require hundreds of connections at once.

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> On Jun 8, 2018, at 4:53 PM, Graeme Neilson <graeme at lolux.net> wrote:
> 
> See if you can route to all the authorities. 
> Tor requires that all relays are able to contact all directory authorities.
> 
> In my case tcptraceroute would not get to all the authorities. For some authorities my ISP was not routing to them.
> 
> 
>> On 8 June 2018 at 17:35, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at gwolf.org> wrote:
>> Roger Dingledine dijo [Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 01:20:19AM -0400]:
>> > First, did your relay find itself reachable (both ORPort and DirPort)
>> > at startup? Look for lines like
>> > 
>> > Jun 05 12:47:50.013 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent.
>> > 
>> > and
>> > 
>> > Jun 05 12:48:43.824 [notice] Self-testing indicates your DirPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>> 
>> Jun 06 15:36:26.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your DirPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent.
>> Jun 06 15:36:27.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>> 
>> So, yes :)
>> 
>> > Second, assuming yes for the first question, I wonder if the directory
>> > authorities are (still) finding it reachable. You can check the recent
>> > votes at
>> > https://collector.torproject.org/recent/relay-descriptors/votes/
>> > or try the (easier to use if it works for you) interface at the bottom of
>> > https://consensus-health.torproject.org/#relayinfo
>> > 
>> > Maybe your port forwarding is expiring after a little while?
>> 
>> My fingerprint is C0417071C3754885296F4A5935AC1BC1CABDBC31. I see all
>> authorities give me "V2Dir" and "Valid", but only three (longc,
>> bastet, moria1) give "Running".
>> 
>> I use my ISP-provided fiber modem. Maybe it is expiring the
>> connections when idle. Is there a way to request a heartbeat to be
>> sent?
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