[tor-relays] Loss of Guard Flag

[Nathaniel Suchy]

If your relay restarts it’ll temporarily lose the guard flag or if it has
slower than average bandwidth it won’t be granted the guard flag.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 7:00 AM Harkirat Virk <tor at loopback.online> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am running an Tor Node nickname 3sKtjMnoiZAIGz07 from ip 59.179.28.221.
> I was given guard flag briefly on 20th Oct and flag removed on 22 Oct. My
> advertised bandwidth also dropped from 2.29 MiB/s to 1.79 MiB/s
> unceremoniously.
> The consensus weight reduced from 992 to 810.
>
> I have checked but did not find any discontinuity on the network end or
> any connections dropped.
> Will is be possible to confirm as the the exact reasons for loss of guard
> and drop in both advertised bandwidth and consensus weight.
>
> Regards,
> Loopback team
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