[tor-relays] New relay on dynamic IP address

teor teor at riseup.net
Fri Feb 21 11:41:11 UTC 2020


Hi,

> On 21 Feb 2020, at 20:21, Mario Costa <mario.costa at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Just reporting back after some time. Today I noticed that my relay running at home with a dynamic IP got a guard flag again. So it’s totally possible for a relay to become a guard even after the authorities notice that it has a dynamic IP address.It must be noted though that the IP address didn’t change since it lost the guard flag the first time.
> 
> It looks like I had it wrong when I concluded that after the first IP change the relay wouldn’t became a guard anymore.
> 
> For reference, the relay fingerprint is F942EE73F1B8E39125F617FA85E80E4C9E540A2E.

The guard flag depends on uptime and bandwidth.
(IP address changes create downtime and reset bandwidth.)

I really wouldn't worry about it too much.

Clients have multiple guards, they'll switch to another one if yours goes down.

T




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