[tor-relays] Why does my relay often appears offline in Metrics and should I be worry?

[Sebastian Hahn]

Hi there,

> On 19. Apr 2020, at 02:25, Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:16:34AM +0200, Clément Février wrote:
>> The issue is back. After more than 3 days, the relay appears offline.
>> All flags are gone in nyx. There is a bug.
> 
> I believe there is something wrong with your ipv6 port.

indeed there is something wrong. I am voting against you because I cannot
reach you via IPv6. A traceroute to you seems to die somewhere inside OVH:

11  th2-dsl1-a1.fr.eu (2001:41d0::b76)  12.944 ms be45.th2-dsl1a-n93.fr.eu (2001:41d0::b72)  13.035 ms  13.103 ms
12  2001:41d0:fde0:80::30 (2001:41d0:fde0:80::30)  12.637 ms  12.595 ms  12.549 ms
13  2001:41d0:fecf:8900:5ee2:8cff:fe99:f106 (2001:41d0:fecf:8900:5ee2:8cff:fe99:f106)  22.724 ms  22.759 ms  21.971 ms
14  2001:41d0:fecf:8900:5ee2:8cff:fe99:f106 (2001:41d0:fecf:8900:5ee2:8cff:fe99:f106)  3029.525 ms !H  3022.011 ms !H  3022.124 ms !H

> So I would suggest removing the ipv6 stuff for a while and see if things
> get better for you.
> 
> And then also exploring why your ipv6 address is not consistently
> routable, or not consistently reachable, or whatever else is going wrong
> with it.

That seems quite worthwhile to figure out. Basically, your computer
isn't really online right now ;)

Cheers
Sebastian