On 23 Oct (09:37:31), Eli wrote: > I can state the reason I stopped hosting my exit relay was due to tor rpm > package not being up to date for CentOS 7. The last available version was > considered out of date and no longer supported. So instead of running a > relay that was potentially detrimental to the health of the tor network I > shutdown the node. I've just pinged our Fedora/CentOS packager, he pointed out this: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-abe6f98ebf 6 days ago, the latest up to date Tor LTS version was uploaded. :) Big thanks for running a relay! Cheers! David > > On Oct 23, 2017, 9:32 AM, at 9:32 AM, David Goulet <dgoulet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Hello everyone! > > > >Since July 2017, there has been a steady decline in relays from ~7k to > >now > >~6.5k. This is a bit unusual that is we don't see often such a steady > >behavior > >of relays going offline (at least that I can remember...). > > > >It could certainly be something normal here. However, we shouldn't rule > >out a > >bug in tor as well. The steadyness of the decline makes me a bit more > >worried > >than usual. > > > >You can see the decline has started around July 2017: > > > >https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-06-01&end=2017-10-23 > > > >What happened around July in terms of tor release: > > > >2017-06-08 09:35:17 -0400 802d30d9b7 (tag: tor-0.3.0.8) > >2017-06-08 09:47:44 -0400 e14006a545 (tag: tor-0.2.5.14) > >2017-06-08 09:47:58 -0400 aa89500225 (tag: tor-0.2.9.11) > >2017-06-08 09:55:28 -0400 f833164576 (tag: tor-0.2.4.29) > >2017-06-08 09:55:58 -0400 21a9e5371d (tag: tor-0.2.6.12) > >2017-06-08 09:56:15 -0400 3db01d3b56 (tag: tor-0.2.7.8) > >2017-06-08 09:58:36 -0400 64ac28ef5d (tag: tor-0.2.8.14) > >2017-06-08 10:15:41 -0400 dc47d936d4 (tag: tor-0.3.1.3-alpha) > >... > >2017-06-29 16:56:13 -0400 fab91a290d (tag: tor-0.3.1.4-alpha) > >2017-06-29 17:03:23 -0400 22b3bf094e (tag: tor-0.3.0.9) > >... > >2017-08-01 11:33:36 -0400 83389502ee (tag: tor-0.3.1.5-alpha) > >2017-08-02 11:50:57 -0400 c33db290a9 (tag: tor-0.3.0.10) > > > >Note that on August 1st 2017, 0.2.4, 0.2.6 and 0.2.7 went end of life. > > > >That being said, I don't have an easy way to list which relays went > >offline > >during the decline (since July basically) to see if a common pattern > >emerges. > > > >So few things. First, if anyone on this list noticed that their relay > >went off > >the consensus while still having tor running, it is a good time to > >inform this > >thread :). > > > >Second, anyone could have an idea of what possibly is going on that is > >have > >one or more theories. Even better, if you have some tooling to try to > >list > >which relays went offline, that would be _awesome_. > > > >Third, knowing what was the state of packaging in > >Debian/Redhat/Ubuntu/... > >around July could be useful. What if a package in distro X is broken > >and the > >update have been killing the relays? Or something like that... > > > >Last, looking at the dirauth would be a good idea. Basically, when did > >the > >majority switched to 030 and then 031. Starting in July, what was the > >state of > >the dirauth version? > > > >Any help is very welcome! Again, this decline could be from natural > >cause but > >for now I just don't want to rule out an issue in tor or packaging. > > > >Cheers! > >David > > > >-- > >HiTVizeJUSe9JPvs6jBv/6i8YFvEYY/NZmNhD2UixVY= > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >tor-relays mailing list > >tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays -- HiTVizeJUSe9JPvs6jBv/6i8YFvEYY/NZmNhD2UixVY=
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