[tor-relays] Guard before Stable flag?

[John Ricketts]

Thanks Tim :)  

> On Nov 2, 2016, at 16:28, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2 Nov. 2016, at 23:42, John Ricketts <john at quintex.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> When looking at my list on Atlas (21 entries) I'm seeing that some of my relays are getting the Guard flag before they become stable.
>> 
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/quintex
>> 
>> I'm going to make the assumption this is normal behavior but I still find it odd.
>> 
>> I also find it odd that I haven't received the stable flag all of the relays given their uptime.  Thoughts, anyone?
> 
> There's a known bug with the Stable flag where downtime has a greater impact
> the longer the relay has been up. It really should be the other way around.
> 
> Ideally, we want any previous uptime to be better than switching relay
> identities. Otherwise, a new relay is better than one with history.
> (Which is sometimes how it works at the moment.)
> 
> Or, perhaps we want to assume that new relays will have the network average
> uptime. So any uptime that's better than average should improve your relay's
> chances of getting the Guard flag.
> 
> T
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