> On 21 Dec 2017, at 08:39, Fabian A. Santiago <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> December 20, 2017 4:32 PM, "teor" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> On 21 Dec 2017, at 08:10, Fabian A. Santiago <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> December 20, 2017 3:32 PM, "teor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 21 Dec 2017, at 03:07, Fabian A. Santiago <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm noticing that if i attempt to restart tor AFTER AccountingMax has been 
>>> reached (meaning it's
>>> currently hibernating), tor itself fails to start.
>>>> What do you mean by "fails to start"?
>>>> What are the log messages?
>>> 
>>> if i increase AccountingMax in torrc, then it restarts just fine.
>>> 
>>> normal?
>>>> It's hard to say, without any log messages.
>>> 
>>> Teor,
>>> 
>>> the logs look normal. maybe I've misinterpreted not opening the listening 
>>> ports as not starting. I
>>> didn't check the actual systemd service status (silly me, I know). it's 
>>> running now so next time I
>>> encounter this, I'll double check.
>> 
>> It is normal for Tor to close its listening ports when hibernating.
>> It is normal for hibernation to persist across a restart.
>> 
>> If you check the logs, it probably says something about this on startup,
>> and when it starts hibernating.
>> 
>> (When Tor doesn't have the right permissions to re-open these ports, the
>> process will exit when it resumes from hibernation. That's a config issue,
>> not a bug.)
>> 
>>> I also noticed in journalctl that it (Tor) wanted me to add 'ExitRelay 1' 
>>> in my torrc to disable
>>> the exit relay warning and for future config requirements (it said). so i 
>>> did that as well. all
>>> seems well as of now.
> 
> so how i first noticed was when i couldn't browse to my dirport readme html 
> page after a tor restart. are you saying when it normally hibernates, that 
> page goes down too?

Yes.

When Tor hibernates, it doesn't send or receive any data.
That includes ORPort and DirPort requests.

T

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