Are you sure you are setting a private auto generated address that Ubuntu changes so that you can’t be tracked?
Thanks, John C. > On Jan 19, 2022, at 1:49 AM, Quentin Campbell <q.g.campb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running a non-exit relay on a home British Telecom broadband connection > (FTTC, 20Mb up/80Mb down). > > Its IP addresses (IPV4 & IPV6) are allocated dynamically. > > The IPV4 address can remain the same for weeks. However the IPV6 address > seems less stable and lasts no more than 2 or 3 days before changing. > > A consquence of this is that Tor Metrics (atlas) shows a lot of downtime for > the node. > > When I see that the node is down I restart the (UBUNTU) NetworkManager > although the host should pick up the new address eventually without doing > that? > > I would like to run a stable node with as little downtime as possible. Any > suggestions on how I might improve things; in particular can I automate the > checking and restart of the network/TOR whenever the IPV6 address changes? Do > I really need to do this? > > On that last point, I thought that TOR nodes handled more gracefully the > issue of dynamic address changes? Is there any source of info on this for > dynamic IPV6 addresses? > > Thanks, > > Quentin > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays