Re: [tor-relays] Shutdown of fallback directory mirror armbrust: E781F4EC69671B3F1864AE2753E0890351506329

[teor <teor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On January 26, 2019 10:52:56 AM UTC, Michael Armbruster <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>After a long time maintaining an exit relay that was also chosen to be
>a
>fallback directory mirror, I decided that the time has come to shut the
>relay down.
>
>It has only financial reasons (being a cheap server, but still using
>money out of my own pocket) and I will stay a happy user of Tor and, of
>course, will provide a new relay as soon as my financial situation gets
>better.

Thank you for running a relay, and thank you for letting us know.

>How should we proceed and how long should I still let the fallback
>mirror run in order to gracefully migrate the fallback status away from
>my server? I do not want to disappear immediately without any further
>notice, so I wanted to ask how to further proceed.

You can shut down the relay as soon as you need to. We designed Tor clients so they work even when most of the fallbacks are down. We regularly monitor the list of fallbacks, and start a rebuild when 25% go down.

T
Hi Michael,

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teor
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