[tor-relays] Guard flag got removed after only 48 hours of downtime.

[William Kane]

Strange, it's still missing the Guard flag after 8 days of consecutive
uptime - maybe I'm just being impatient?

Weirdly enough, the relay is also missing on
https://utternoncesense.com/consensus-health.html.

Every other relay that I look up can be found on there.

Given that my relay's WOF was 97.95% and 98% are required, this
appears very strange to me.

Does this possibly have something to do with the increased traffic /
borderline DoS of the DirAuth's caused by the alternative Tor client
(not that I know anything about it, I just read about it on this
mailing list a few weeks ago)?

I really want my Guard flag back :-(

2020-08-01 11:24 GMT, lists at for-privacy.net <lists at for-privacy.net>:
> On 31.07.2020 14:41, William Kane wrote:
>
>> That was very informative and educational compared to the other
>> replies.
> +1
>
> On 29.07.2020 05:21, ECAN - Matt Westfall wrote:
>> Yeah you wouldn't want to instantly throw a relay the Guard flag back
>> after any kind of down time, because the whole point of a Guard is
>> primarily stability.
>>
>> If a Guard drops off line for even 10 minutes, there's no way to know
>> why.
>
> Is there a (few seconds downtime) threshold , if you reboot after kernel
> upgrades?
>
>
> I try to limit the reboots and usually wait until a Tor and kernel
> upgrade has come out.
> Of course, I'm not waiting for reboots in the event of serious security
> vulnerabilities that apply to my system.
>
> --
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>
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