[tor-relays] Re: Issues with My Tor Relay

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Hello.

stay.hydrated834＠passmail.net wrote:
> 1.  Selective blocking: Some IP addresses that connect to me are being
> denied by default, whereas others with similar characteristics connect
> without any issue.

I'm not entirely sure what this means. What is denying them and how do
you know?

> 2.  Low bandwidth usage: The relay isn’t consuming much bandwidth. I’m
> not sure whether this is normal while the relay is still learning its
> capacity or if something else is limiting traffic.

This is normal. It can take a few weeks for a new relay to get up to
speed. See https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay/. Speed
also depends on location. Your relay is in Germany where most relays are
right now, so expect traffic to ramp up rapidly over a couple weeks.

> 3.  No connections on port 9030: So far, I haven’t seen any inbound
> connections to the directory port (9030).

DirPort has been deprecated for non-authoritative relays and it's no
longer published in the consensus. That's totally normal, and directory
requests go through the ORPort now. You have the V2Dir flag, which means
you are, indeed, serving directory requests.

> 109.199.164.117 – Port 9001 (OR) / DIR 9030

I can't ping that host from 94.156.152.8 (RO) or 102.211.56.20 (ZA), but
connections to 9001 and 9030 succeed just fine.

And thank you for running a relay!

Regards,
forest
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