[tor-relays] Restore tor exit node

[torix at protonmail.com]

This happened to me as well this week.  I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed.  But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new.
Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.

--Torix


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On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, <node47 at torsrv.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have the following problem:
> My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh
> Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before).
> I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in
> torrc to /var/lib/tor
>
> When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and
> ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint.
> The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had
> been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my
> node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and
> the old flags/status.
>
> Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to
> correct the relaysearch?!
>
> Best regards from Germany
> Max
>
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