[tor-relays] DirPort

Roger Dingledine arma at torproject.org
Tue Mar 8 21:28:04 UTC 2022


On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 11:25:00AM -0600, Thoughts wrote:
> Coming up on day 3 of my tor relay, "SpinnerDolphin1".  Per the metrics page
> is showing "Dir Address none", but I have a DirPort defined (as nyx
> reports), and opened.

Modern Tor relays don't advertise their DirPort anymore, because nothing
uses it.

More details here:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/relay-search/-/issues/40013

That is, you can set your DirPort to 0, or leave it as it is.

Thanks for running a relay!
--Roger



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