On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Nils Vogels wrote: > Hey Sebastian, Roger, > On 13/01/2012, Sebastian Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides >> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be >> upgraded to 0.2.3.x to be allowed to vote along with the other dirauths, >> so it doesn't immediately know about the new consensus. I don't know >> when ides will be upgraded, but I hope the answer is soon. > > Let me know if there is a need for stable authorities with speedy > admins. I'm sure the Dutch hacker community (which I am very much > involved with) can lend a hand and/or a high-bw host.
Hi Nils, I'm pasting some stuff here from the "consensus update request" thread, also on tor-relays: On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> The problem is that in the current situation, it gets worse with more >> authorities, not better. Our voting mechanism needs an overhaul :/ > > Indeed. > > The other problem is that we simply have too many clients out there. > And we've taught them all to be eager to keep updated, so they're harder > to partition. But it's really a volume thing at this point. We need a more > scalable way of keeping clients informed about network topology. In our > copious free time, while also doing everything else that needs doing. :/ > > Anyway, crisis averted, this time. > > --Roger Hope that helps make it clearer why adding a new authority in the short term doesn't actually help us currently. Thanks Sebastian _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
