> On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:09, teor <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >"No Self-Referencing Relays" >> >> >I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily >> >> >config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt? >> >> >The unnecessary descriptor space/bw? >> >> >> >> This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were >> ugly. If the >> >> penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the >> self-connections themselves, we're >> >> both fine with removing it. >> > > Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated entirely?) > > Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration > variants. > > Tim
I agree, and this one in particular is important to some operators: by allowing a relay to specify itself in the family, one can just have a single configuration file for all relays in a family. Tom
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