[tor-relays] Question on relay allowed downtime

[Keifer Bly]

Thank you. I just had to restart my relay again because it disappeared from
the relay list for some reason, the software did not say that it was having
any trouble and my internet connection is working perfectly fine. Would you
know why that might be happening? Thank you.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:54 AM, Vasilis <andz at torproject.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Keifer Bly:
>
> > So recently I had an uptime of about 3-4 days but then I had to restart
> my computer to install an operating system update (the OS in question being
> Mac OS X High Sierra). I know I am not to worry about what flags I have as
> long as I am not a bad relay, but am curious, what is the allowed downtime
> the network allows to do things like install operating system updates, etc,
> without significantly impacting time between failures?
>
> In general it's much better to run an updated relay and take as much time
> is
> needed for operating system updates. You can read Tor's protocol
> specification
> section that describe how directory authorities choose which flags to
> apply to
> routers (relays) [1].
>
>
> For more information on the topic you can read related discussions in tor
> relay
> threads [2], [3].
>
>
> [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/dir-spec.txt#n2426
> [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-Janua
> ry/011826.html
> [3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-Decem
> ber/005896.html
>
>
> Cheers,
> ~Vasilis
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