[tor-relays] Tor Metrics 'Running' flag is back for bridges who don't publish the OrPort

[Hiro]

On 6/26/24 16:46, Hiro wrote:
>
> On 6/23/24 21:59, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 09:28:23PM +0200, lists at for-privacy.net wrote:
>>> A few months ago there was a recommendation to not exposing OrPort for
>>> bridges.
>>> This had the unpleasant effect that all bridges were 'red' on Tor 
>>> Metrics,
>>> even though they were running perfectly fine.
>>> I noticed yesterday after the meeting that everything is 'green' again.
>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/ForPrivacyNET
>>>
>>> Thank you, I believe these 6 people did that:
>>> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/318
>> Right -- I think we are still in the process of fixing that issue. The
>> current situation as I understand it is that bridgestrap measures 
>> whether
>> your obfs4 port is reachable, and it uploads these results to the 
>> metrics
>> sites, and the metrics sites use them if available instead of looking
>> at Running.
>>
>> But currently the "uploads to metrics" step happens once a day, while
>> bridgestrap produces results way more frequently than that.
>>
>> And in the past there were surprises where the metrics side would say
>> something like "I'll call you running if bridgestrap said you were
>> reachable within the past three hours" -- which is a great design if
>> you are getting the bridgestrap results rapidly, but not great if you
>> get them once a day.
>>
>> So, I'm glad to see that your relay was green again for a bit, but I
>> fear a bit more work remains until we get there *consistently*. :)
>>
> Yes I think the issue is somewhat hidden into collector and how/how 
> often the tests from bridgestrap are processed.
>
> I am counting to work on this when we are back the 2nd week of july.

I do not want to declare victory too soon, but I think this issue should 
be resolved. There was a configuration option hidden in collector that 
was making it process bridgestrap tests every 8 hours. I have now 
changed it to every hour.

Let's see.

Cheers,

-hiro


>
> Cheers,
>
> -hiro
>
>
>>
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