[tor-relays] Re: Relay forest18 is still not on the consensus

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Hello.

Tor at 1AEO wrote:
> Currently, looks like two main issues and a minor third issue for
> forest18

Right now the biggest issue is that, although they unblocked the IPs not
too long ago, they've been re-blocked and they are now "looking into the
issue". Hopefully they will unblock them again.

> 2) Fast flag: The speed is also very slow, shown by very low bandwidth
> scanner results from the 6 bandwidth directory authorities (Consensus
> Weight from Authorities, i.e. "Cons Wt" in source below).

I'm having that problem with many of my relays. The relay's CPU and port
are absolutely capable of handling a sustained 100 Mbps. From what I
understand, the problem is that the bandwidth authorities are mostly
concentrated in the Americas and western Europe, so they mistake high
latency for poor bandwidth capacity. I don't know how to fix that. I
assume running multiple relays on the same VPS would help, although that
seems to me like a crappy hack to patch up a real problem.

Meanwhile, of the 33 VPSes I have, each of the 3 in the Netherlands that
I bought on a Black Friday sale simply because they were cheap pass more
traffic than all my non-US, non-EU servers combined, despite scoring a
bit low on speedtests. It would be nice if authorities simply increased
the consensus weight of distant servers proportional to their distance.

It's a bit discouraging to run a relay in South Africa for months and
have it pass 0.4 MiB/s when a server in Europe for a fraction of the
price and a slower network port and CPU passes 12 MiB/s after just a few
weeks.

> 3) Uptime: Relay reports and operator directly controls, also shows
> low, ~2 days.

I brought all my servers down for a few hours recently. That could be
the reason for that.
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