Georg Koppen <[email protected]>: > Hello everyone! > > Some of you might have noticed that there is a visible drop of relays on > our consensus-health website.[1] The reason for that is that we kicked > roughly 600 non-exit relays out of the network yesterday. In fact, only > a small fraction of them had the guard flag, so the vast majority were > middle-only relays. We don't have any evidence that these relays were > doing any attack, but there are attacks possible which relays could > perform from the middle position. Therefore, we decided we'd remove > those relays for our users' safety sake. >
> While we were already tracking some of the relays for a while, a big > chunk of them was also independently reported by a cypherpunk and nusenu > helped analyzing the data. Thanks to both of them from our side. > > Foe what it is worth: a large part of those relays did not set any valid > contact info and/or when we tried to contact some of the relays' > operators the emails bounced. However, we sometimes need to have ways to > reach relay operators, be it for debugging purposes or for helping them > with relay misconfiguration. Thus, please set a valid contact info when > running relays. > > Finally, anyone running relays: try to get connected to the community so > we can build some trust among each other. That seems to be an essential > part in our long-term strategy to fight bad relays trying to enter our > network. > > Georg > When you don't have any evidence that these relays were doing something bad then what did they do to get rejected?
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