[tor-relays] Mangled Contact line on torstatus.info

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:55:16PM +0100, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Since i switched to 0.2.4.19 a few days ago i noticed some strange
> behaviour. Sometimes the data seems to he corrupted i see on
> torstatus.info. The atlas data seems to be right though. Afaik only
> the contact and family data seems to be wrong.
> 
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/3C82285FAC2171FA5178340A82B05F2190AB68E9
> 
> http://torstatus.info/router_detail.php?FP=3c82285fac2171fa5178340a82b05f2190ab68e9

Your relay is fine -- atlas is right.

See also
https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html?search=ParEpistemenTaksis
which leads to
https://exonerator.torproject.org/serverdesc?desc-id=e0bfc25bd1895f3592c9177be7ed44176ef7e9fd

I don't know who runs torstatus.info, but it looks like it's screwing
things up. The contactinfo it's listing for you seems to belong to
the "waldfrosch" relay:
https://exonerator.torproject.org/serverdesc?desc-id=226dfd574c920b850f67786645c4d800fd754892

Maybe the funny characters are confusing the old Torstatus program?

The fact that the old Torstatus program is unmaintained is a big reason
why tools like Atlas and Globe exist now.

(Thanks for running a relay.)

> Im not sure what to make of it right now. A bitcoin for your thoughts ...

I direct you to
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/announcement-tor-project-now-accepting-bitcoin-donations
:)

Thanks!
--Roger