[tor-consensus-health] Consensus issues

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 02:55:16PM +0200, Linus Nordberg via tor-consensus-health wrote:
> From reading doctor/consensus_health_checker.py it seems like
> clock_skew, on which the warning about system clock being off is based,
> assumes that the time it takes between request being sent and authority
> composing a reply header is zero.
> 
> If that's true it follows that with a correct system clock on the
> authority, the warning indicates how much time was spent between doctor
> sending the request and the authority handling it.

Agreed!

I made a ticket about this bug:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/doctor/-/issues/40017

--Roger