[tor-relays] relay lost most of its consensus weight

[jensm1]

Addendum: Did a bit of research (or rather checked some random relays on
Atlas).

It seems like it's not only my relay that experienced a significant drop
at the same time. I can't find anything obvious these relays have in
common. new/old, large/small, guard/exit/middle, different countries and
ASes.

So it might be BWAuth related after all.


Am 14.09.2016 um 02:49 schrieb jensm1:
>
> That's exactly what baffles me. I didn't make any changes to the relay
> configuration since updating to 0.2.8.7. I've always had some
> fluctuations in the Advertised Bandwidth as reported by Atlas, but I
> assume these are from the BWAuth measurements?
>
> The only thing on my end, that I could imagine, is that the VPS
> provider changed something in his configuration. But since I don't see
> any interruption of the servers uptime (neither in Tor, nor in Debian,
> nor in the VPS control panel), I assume this couldn't be anything
> drastic like moving the VM to a different host machine.
>
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> Am 14.09.2016 um 02:10 schrieb teor:
>>> On 13 Sep 2016, at 23:30, jensm1 <jensm1 at bbjh.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> I last restarted the relay five days ago (update to 0.2.8.7). Can a restart really cause the consensus weight to drop several days later? If it drops within a few hours, I'd get that, but what would delay that response that much?
>>> (Not complaining, just genuinely curious.)
>> I'm really not sure - any flag changes should have an impact within an hour.
>> Several days later is more likely to be bandwidth authority measurement - is your relay up and capable of transmitting as much traffic as it was before it was restarted?
>> Are its ports open to all other relays?
>> Can it open connections to other relays, regardless of their ports?
>> Did you make any other config changes at the same time?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>> Am 13.09.2016 um 10:37 schrieb teor:
>>>>> On 13 Sep 2016, at 18:05, jensm1 <jensm1 at bbjh.de>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just realised that my relay 'itwasntme' lost most of its consensus
>>>>> weight yesterday morning. The relay is only three weeks old, but it was
>>>>> finally picking up some traffic, which now is gone again.
>>>>> What could be the cause for this? Is there a problem with my relay or
>>>>> configuration?
>>>>>
>>>> It looks like you just recently gained some consensus weight, then temporarily lost it after you restarted your relay.
>>>> We're working on improving the stability algorithm so these temporary downtimes don't affect relays as much.
>>>> But in any case, wait a week or two, and it will be back.
>>>> (If not, please let us know.)
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/F46C312E279185364F46EA06C58F7925280911E2
>>>>>
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