[tor-relays] Relay consensus weight drop

[John Ricketts]

Thank you.  I also have been experiencing this problem.  :-)

> On Jun 25, 2021, at 14:54, Georg Koppen <gk at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Georg Koppen:
>> mikefloyd2:
>>> Following further decline of my server's consensus weight, I looked around a bit.
>>> I found some more servers that show similar behavior in the graphs shown on the Metrics website:
>>> * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/01729F10A81DDD8A92D770B2133082EB56C75E26
>>> * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/010B7728454411F485CE29D4C79A14534151C2C4
>>> * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1E5136DDC52FAE1219208F0A6BADB0BA62587EE6
>>> * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/899D1D12BBF6ED445048CB302C0F14B6D15ADCA2
>>> * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/00DCAEAE3E54C32809E7F7CC4BF2A6FC68FC552F
>> 
>> Alright, that's useful, thanks! I've added those links to our ticket[1]
>> in case we need further data in order to track the problem down and fix it.
>> 
>> As a general note: I asked the operator of bastet to switch back to
>> Torflow as soon as possible, so that Torflow-backed bandwidth
>> authorities have a majority again in our network. That should mitigate
>> the immediate problem and get all your relays back to appropriate
>> consensus weights (unless there are sbws-unrelated bugs preventing
>> that). Additionally, it gives us time to track down this bug and
>> properly fix it.
> 
> We think we found the problem and fixed it. Again, thanks to everyone
> who reported this problem. After some testing we decided it would be
> save if bastet's bandwidth authority switched over to sbws again. This
> happened with the 1600 UTC vote. Please keep your eyes open in case
> there are more critical bugs lurking and if you find any issue do not
> hesitate to report it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Georg
> 
>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>> Georg
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/sbws/-/issues/40091#note_2738902
>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
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>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 at 5:41 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Claus Jacobsen tor99connect at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Mike is not the only one - I've been seeing the exact same thing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My relay is
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A2F5DF163132CF8FFC1F6343135D3397CA85CF89
>>>> 
>>>>     I posted an alarm about this on 3 June, but there were no followups.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-June/019679.html
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
>>>> 
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