descriptor lost by authorities?

[Scott Bennett]

     In the past several hours, traffic through my tor node has almost stopped.
The last time an exit was taken through my node was over three and a half hours
ago.  I see that the descriptor for my node, MYCROFTsOtherChild, is no longer
in the consensus document nor was it ever distributed back to my node in
directory updates.
     The relevant info-level log entries from the last two descriptor
updates posted are below.  Timestamps are for CDT.  The first update did work,
but the next one at roughly 18 hours later appears to have been ignored or
discarded by the authorities.  I would like to know why.

Mar 31 06:24:37.522 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.562 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.606 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.618 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.630 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.642 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:37.654 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1978)
Mar 31 06:24:38.106 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:38.190 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:38.624 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:39.780 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:39.867 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:39.869 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200)
 after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Mar 31 06:24:39.937 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): eof (status 200) after uploading server descriptor: finished.
Apr 01 00:25:03.710 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.711 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.712 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.713 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.714 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.715 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)
Apr 01 00:25:03.716 [info] directory_post_to_dirservers(): Uploading an extrainfo (length 1936)

     This doesn't seem like the kind of thing that the developers or directory
authority operators would pull as an April Fool's joke, so I thought I'd better
ask OR-TALK readers if they can explain what happened.  I'm running the
0.2.1.12-alpha version.
     Thanks in advance for any ideas on this.  I'll wait a few more hours
before attempting to force another update in case the authority operators or
developers need to investigate the matter on their systems first.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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