What causes this error?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:01:05PM -0500, TorOp wrote:
> On 3/6/2010 4:07 PM, andrew at torproject.org wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:00:19PM -0500, torop at optonline.net wrote 0.4K bytes in 7 lines about:
>>> Mar 06 14:27:37.436 [Warning] We just marked ourself as down. Are your
>>> external addresses reachable?
>>
>> Well, is your IP address reachable from the Internet?
>>
>
> Yes, and I am still getting some light traffic now.
>
> Mar 06 11:46:54.200 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is  
> reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.

There are some known false positives for this warning message if your
Tor is both a relay and also offers a hidden service.

If your Tor is seeing use from clients, and it's listed in the
networkstatus consensus, I wouldn't worry about that message.

--Roger

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