Re: suspicious log warning messages

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:28:30 -0500 Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:02:53AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>      Last night my tor server logged some unexpected messages.  I've wait=
>ed
>> about twelve hours to see whether any relevant discussion appeared on this
>> list.  Thus far, it hasn't, so I'm posting them here in hopes that someone
>> will explain what he/she was doing.
> [...]
>> Nov 07 19:37:24.205 [warn] Not enough good signatures on networkstatus co=
>nsensus
>> Nov 07 19:37:24.221 [warn] Unable to load consensus directory dowloaded f=
>rom server '128.31.0.34:9001'
>>=20
>> No more messages of this sort have appeared since the last one shown abov=
>e.
>
>There's a new v3 directory authority, "ides", run by Mike Perry.
>Apparently, adding it caused some weird bug to show up in the new
>certificate download code.  See Flyspray bug 546.
>
     Fair enough.  I'm glad it was all in a good cause. :-)  Thanks, Nick,
for clearing that up.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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