[tor-relays] not specified families

[Steve Snyder]

No, there no reason to set MyFamily when you only admin a single node.

That said, I just followed the link you referenced, and it leaves my 
scratching head a little.  The description of NodeFamily is:

"The Tor servers, defined by their identity fingerprints or nicknames, 
constitute a "family" of similar or co-administered servers, so never 
use any two of them in the same circuit. Defining a NodeFamily is only 
needed when a server doesn’t list the family itself (with MyFamily). 
This option can be used multiple times."

What?  Suppose I operate 3 nodes.  I could specify

MyFamily 
$00000000000000000000000000000000,$111111111111111111111111111111,$22222222222222222222222222222222

The doc says:

   NodeFamily node,node,…

   MyFamily node,node,…

So how would a NodeFamily declaration differ from the 3-node MyFamily 
example above?


On 01/05/2012 09:29 PM, Greg wrote:
> (I'm quite new here, but...)
> If you only run 1 node, is there any reason to set the Family? My
> reading of https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
> (MyFamily, NodeFamily) suggests that it's not relevant for the 1-node
> case.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> 2012/1/5 Tor Relays at brwyatt.net<tor at brwyatt.net>:
>> Probably just misconfigured. If there are emails attached to the nodes you
>> could try mailing them directly about it.
>>
>> brwyatt
>>
>> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 01:29:42 +0100, "Aurel W."<aurel.w at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when I browse through the list of relays I find many router names,
>>> which correlate in some way, but which don't specify a family in their
>>> descriptors.
>>>
>>> Just to name a few:
>>> * 2* c5VycfOP
>>> * 3* c516a
>>> * Caldron, Caldron2, Caldron3
>>> * BlgTOR2, BlgTOR
>>> * DwarfHappy, DwarfSleepy, DwarfSneezy, DwarfDopey
>>> * DONATIONxTORx0 - DONATIONxTORx7
>>> and so on,...
>>>
>>> is there a reason, why there is such a high number of relays, which
>>> fail to specify a family, since this seams rather striking?
>>>
>>> aurel
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