[tor-relays] Relay disconnect & offline on IP change

[George Hartley]

>From my experience, it should come back online, but not instantly - you likely need to wait for the next descriptor to be uploaded (once every 6 hours usually).

All the best,
George
On Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 at 12:53 PM, Tor Relay Net Ops via tor-relays <tor-relays at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

> Greetings fellow relay operators!
> 

> I'm currently running a tor relay on a dynamic IP Address connection, usually my ISP gives me a new address every day or so-
> 

> Lately [for the past like week or so- can't remember when it started happening], I have to manually restart it when my WAN IP Address changes; to get the relay back online- (systemctl restart tor at default)
> 

> Is there a way to not manually restart tor (besides running a cron script to do so)
> 

> Below are my tor configuration:
> 

> Tor 0.4.8.12 on Linux
> Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
> /etc/tor/torrc
> Nickname    hadleyJamison
> ContactInfo url:darrenofficial.com proof:dns-rsa ciissversion:2 mailto:tor-relay-netops at darrenofficial.com
> ORPort      88 IPv4Only
> ExitRelay   0
> SocksPort   0
> 

> ControlPort 9051
> CookieAuthentication 1
> 

> RelayBandwidthRate 69 MBits
> RelayBandwidthBurst 69 MBits
> 

> -darren
> 

> 
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