[tor-relays] Relay JPsi2 not getting into consensus anymore

[William Kane]

>The provider said it was due to Spectre mitigations and the only way for me
to fix this would be to switch to a newer (more expensive) plan...

What?

Your provider lied to you / scammed you, Spectre/Meltdown etc.
mitigations have nothing to do with applications freezing or having to
get a faster downstream/upstream speed.. at worst there's a 5-10%
performance hit if you don't have the newest CPU microcode installed
and an OS that makes use of the new insturctions (use the latest linux
kernel and intel-ucode if you can).

2020-10-11 16:48 GMT, Random Tor Node Operator <tor at unterderbruecke.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> some weeks ago, my relay JPsi2
> (F6EC46933CE8D4FAD5CCDAA8B1C5A377685FC521) started experiencing moderate
> stability problems. It would freeze after a few hours or days. The
> provider said it was due to Spectre mitigations and the only way for me
> to fix this would be to switch to a newer (more expensive) plan...
>
> Some time later I did so and reinstalled it with Ubuntu 18.04 and placed
> the old keys into the new installation. It seems they are now expected
> to be in /var/lib/tor/.tor/keys, as opposed to /var/lib/tor/keys as I
> was used to in Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> However, it does not seem to be making it into the consensus anymore.
> Only the authority nodes moria1, dizum, and longclaw vote for Running.
> The others don't.
>
> So far I haven't been able to figure out the reason for that, so any
> help is appreciated.
>
> Here is part of the output of journalctl -u tor and the torrc file:
>
>
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] Heartbeat: It seems like we are not in the cached
> consensus.
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 8 days 0:00 hours, with
> 0 circuits open. I've sent 54.04 MB and received 163.30 MB.
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] While bootstrapping, fetched this many bytes:
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     9368438 (server descriptor fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     1060775 (consensus network-status fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     13332 (authority cert fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     2762395 (microdescriptor fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] While not bootstrapping, fetched this many bytes:
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     111548029 (server descriptor fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     100899 (server descriptor upload)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     15307429 (consensus network-status fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     1785 (authority cert fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice]     942746 (microdescriptor fetch)
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 96.710%. TLS write
> overhead: 31%
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] Circuit handshake stats since last time: 1/1 TAP,
> 0/0 NTor.
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] Since startup we initiated 0 and received 0 v1
> connections; initiated 0 and received 2 v2 connections; initiated 0 and
> received 114 v3 connections; initiated 0 and received 1899 v4
> connections; initiated 46 and received 5694 v5 connections.
> Oct 11 15:04:32 j60204.servers.jiffybox.net tor[11183]: Oct 11
> 15:04:32.000 [notice] DoS mitigation since startup: 0 circuits killed
> with too many cells. 0 circuits rejected, 0 marked addresses. 0
> connections closed. 0 single hop clients refused. 0 INTRODUCE2 rejected.
> Oct 11 18:14:03 j60204.servers.
>
>
> # cat /etc/tor/torrc
> OfflineMasterKey 1
> SOCKSPort 0
> SOCKSPolicy reject *
> RunAsDaemon 1
> ControlPort 9051
> HashedControlPassword
> 16:28CD63819CB35660601EB9CED4BC2A4252D3DB80488DFD4F22CA4AE930
> ORPort 9001
> ORPort [2a00:1158:3::1ba]:9001
> Nickname JPsi2
> RelayBandwidthRate 12500 KB
> RelayBandwidthBurst 12500 KB
> ContactInfo 0xF1ADC390 Random Tor Node Operator <tor at unterderbruecke
> (dot) de> bitcoin:1LBoEppezy2HauE957HzfFn9UGywK6aboB
> DirPort 9030
> MyFamily $B198C0B4B8C551F174FBB841A172616E3DB3124D,
> $F6EC46933CE8D4FAD5CCDAA8B1C5A377685FC521
> IPv6Exit 0
> ExitPolicy reject *:*
> ExitPolicy reject6 *:*
>
>