[tor-relays] disable conflux on exit relay?

[Hiro]

Hi,

On 4/14/24 16:17, applied-privacy.net via tor-relays wrote:
>> will
>> ConfluxEnabled 0
>> disable it for tor acting as a client only or for relays as well?
>
> Yes, it affects relays as well, not just clients.
>
> Due to the high frequency of bug events related to conflux,
> especially:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40908
>
> the tor_bug_reached metric basically becomes meaningless because it is 
> "normal" to see that counter increase all the time.
> To work around that issue we filed the following issue
> which would make it possible to run exits with conflux enabled
> without rendering the tor_bug_reached metric meaningless:
>
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40930
>
>
> FYI from the tor log file:
>
>> This tor is a relay and ConfluxEnabled is set to 0. We would ask you
>> to please write to us on tor-relay at lists.torproject.org or file a bug
>> explaining why you have disabled this option. Without news from you,
>> we might end up marking your relay as a BadExit.
>
Thanks for reporting this. I have opened 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/815 to fix it.

I was wondering if you had disabled conflux for any of your relays, and 
if this was the case what we could do to help you and have you re-enable 
it again.

Talk soon,

-hiro

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