How can a node become an entry guard?

[Xinwen Fu]

Hi,

Just curious about how a node can become an entry guard. Any document
for this?

Thanks!

Xinwen Fu

BlueStar88 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> because of some critical memory shortage on 'BlueStar88b' i've turned
> off beeing OR on this node. But for my Torstat i'd like to get "more
> fresh" directory information [1], so i'm still serving on DIR port to
> take this advantage in effect.
> I've noticed, that the DIR service is running fine, but i do not publish
> any descriptor of doing so. This does not really make sense.
> 
> Is this intentionally or never tested like this?
> 
> 
> Greets
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/contrib/torel-design.txt
>