I´ve taken a look at the release notes for 0.1.0.3-rc and found: Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x: When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them. I guess that means that I´m confused :-)