Re: [tor-relays] Naive question about consensus weight

[Toralf FÃrster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>]

On 07/17/2015 05:53 PM, Speak Freely wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> It is a relatively common question, I ask it all the time.
> 
> There are a few things you can try to do. Read all 4 before you make a
> decision.
> 
> 1) Try turning your exit relay into a guard relay (ExitPolicy reject
> *:*). If no change after a week or so, it won't change.
> 2) Try resetting your onion keys by deleting everything in /var/lib/tor/keys
> 2.1) WARNING: Your relay is not new, looks almost 4 years old. When/if
> you reset your onion keys, you will get a brand new fingerprint, and you
> will appear as a brand new relay on the network, and have to go through
> all the stages again. That could be upsetting due to your longstanding
> participation, so be warned. Alternatively, save your onion keys
> somewhere safe, and create fresh onion keys to see if it works. If it
> doesn't work, put back your old keys.
> 3) Turn off your relay for at least a week. Let the network churn for a
> bit without you. It may help.
> 4) Do nothing. Ignore the previous 3 suggestions, and wait for more
> bwauths to be setup, which I've been repeatedly told are in the works
> and coming, and periodically remind people the problem still exists.
> 
> If you can, I would choose #4. If you are impatient like me, and also
> not horrendously fixated on your atlas stats, try any or all of the first 3.

Puh - a new fresh relay would be handled differently than an old relays which was rebooted ??

That would mean IMO that the bwauth algorithm has to be fixed or ?


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