Just reporting back after some time. Today I noticed that my relay running at home with a dynamic IP got a guard flag again. So it’s totally possible for a relay to become a guard even after the authorities notice that it has a dynamic IP address.It must be noted though that the IP address didn’t change since it lost the guard flag the first time.
It looks like I had it wrong when I concluded that after the first IP change the relay wouldn’t became a guard anymore. For reference, the relay fingerprint is F942EE73F1B8E39125F617FA85E80E4C9E540A2E. -m > Il giorno 27 gen 2020, alle ore 15:15, Mario Costa <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > > 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 _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
