[tor-relays] Entry relay still the same after months?weeks/

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 08:14:52AM +0000, je suis wrote:
> And my apologies if this turns out to be a simple, obvious answer, but
> ever since two(?) upgrades back, my entry relay never changed. I
> manually deleted Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/state and only then it
> changed. As of the last delete, it never changed, not with "New
> identity" or with "New Tor circuit for this site". Is this an intended
> behaviour?

Yes it is.

See
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards
for the short version, and then if you want the longer version, see
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters

--Roger