Torix, This is really useful. I forced an IP change and the relay lost the guardian flag. I guess that now the authorities know that it’s running on a dynamic IP connection and won’t assign a guard flag anymore. I was really surprised when the relay became a guard in about a week of uptime.
By the way, I didn’t set a traffic limit. Hope this doesn’t upset my ISP, but my little RPi is happily talking with almost 4000 peers :) -m > Il giorno 27 gen 2020, alle ore 14:41, [email protected] ha scritto: > > Dear Mario, > > In almost 2 years I've been running a middle relay from home, I have had > about 15 ip changes. One time they came and replaced my equipment and it was > down about 5 hours. It started back up with about 6 connections, but was > back at a full 3000 in a few hours. I've never had a guard flag, even with > my current 3+months tor uptime with the same ip address. I only run a > terabyte a month through it, so maybe that's too little, though it does have > the fast flag. > > The first 6 or 8 months before a new tor version came out, there was a lot > more traffic than I wanted to handle, just to keep under my ISP's radar, so I > had the config set up to turn off tor when the daily limit was reached, > usually between 8 and 10 pm. Then it would start up again after midnight. I > asked if this was still worth it, and the gurus said yes. So I'd say that a > few ip changes are going to be small potatoes compared to turning the relay > off for hours every night. > > So glad you are running a relay. "A chicken in every pot, and a relay in > every house." > > --torix > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:19 PM, Mario Costa <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I started a new relay at home. I was really surprised to see it gain a Guard >> flag in about a week since it first came online. My first relay (on a VPS) >> became a Guard well over a month after I set it up. How can I assess what >> was different this time? >> >> Also, I’m wondering what will happen when the dynamic IP changes. Sooner or >> later I’ll have a power outage or restart the modem. Last time my IP changed >> it happened overnight for no evident reason. Will this relay lose its flags? >> Is a really with a dynamic IP address useful at all? >> >> Cheers, >> >> -m >> >> tor-relays mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
