[tor-relays] Recent rejection of relays

[Tor Relays]

Georg Koppen <gk at torproject.org>:

> Hello everyone!
>
> Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on
> our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked
> roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only
> a small fraction of them had the guard flag, so the vast majority were
> middle-only relays. We don't have any evidence that these relays were
> doing any attack, but there are attacks possible which relays could
> perform from the middle position. Therefore, we decided we'd remove
> those relays for our users' safety sake.
>

> While we were already tracking some of the relays for a while, a big
> chunk of them was also independently reported by a cypherpunk and nusenu
> helped analyzing the data. Thanks to both of them from our side.
>
> Foe what it is worth: a large part of those relays did not set any valid
> contact info and/or when we tried to contact some of the relays'
> operators the emails bounced. However, we sometimes need to have ways to
> reach relay operators, be it for debugging purposes or for helping them
> with relay misconfiguration. Thus, please set a valid contact info when
> running relays.
>
> Finally, anyone running relays: try to get connected to the community so
> we can build some trust among each other. That seems to be an essential
> part in our long-term strategy to fight bad relays trying to enter our
> network.
>
> Georg
>

When you don't have any evidence that these relays were doing something bad
then what did they do to get rejected?
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