Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Green Dream]

> I just want to make sure that... the ISP is not throttling traffic without 
> notification.


Yeah, that's a valid concern. Aside from running through some of the
M-LAB tests (https://www.measurementlab.net/tests/), it can be hard to
predict or detect this.

Another issue that can crop up is poor peering capacity between your
ISP and the rest of the Internet. In particular, in order to get a
good consensus weight, the Tor bandwidth authorities need a good path
to your relay. This can be really hard to measure. I have run into at
least one provider that had great bandwidth when measured with nearby
hosts or localized CDNs, but somewhere in the path to the bandwidth
authorities there was congestion or some other issue preventing good
connectivity.
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Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Ralph Seichter]

On 22.08.16 19:22, Green Dream wrote:

> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay

Thank you. I had read about this, but the relay in question already had
both the 'stable' and 'guard' flags (which probably meant it was in
phase 3), and lost both flags after I enabled accounting. I don't mean
to be impatient, though, and I will keep the relay running and see if
the coming week brings changes. I just want to make sure that a) I did
not screw up configuring things and b) the ISP is not throttling traffic
without notification. The latter possibility only occurred to me some
hours ago.

-Ralph
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Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Green Dream]

@Ralph

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay

It is normal to experience a dip in traffic. Just keep the relay
running and let things play out. It can take weeks for utilization to
peak.
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Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Ralph Seichter]

On 21.08.2016 13:29, Sebastian Hahn wrote:

> Just keep your relay up and you should regain the flag.

Followup:

Now that another day has passed, the relay's traffic has unfortunately
dropped significantly, to roughly 10% of what the relay could process
according to AccountingMax and the specified bandwidth limitations. The
number of connections has dropped to approximately 20% of the former
value. That's quite a shame.

Can I do anything to actively promote the relay, or am I left with
leaving it running and hoping that it is not "tainted" in some way? The
'Fast' flag is still present, but actual use is minimal.

-Ralph
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Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Ralph Seichter]

On 21.08.2016 13:29, Sebastian Hahn wrote:

> Just keep your relay up and you should regain the flag.

Thanks Sebastian, I'll do that. I just wanted to make sure that I did
not botch the configuration when I introduced accounting.

-Ralph
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Re: [tor-relays] Accounting and the 'Stable' flag

[Sebastian Hahn]

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 13:11, Ralph Seichter  wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I have enabled daily accounting on a non-exit Tor relay some days ago.
> On the first day, the transfer threshold was reached and the relay
> entered hibernation for a few hours, as expected. On the next day, I
> reduced RelayBandwidthRate to ensure that the accumulated transfer would
> fall just short of the AccountingMax value.
> 
> During the last days, the relay has only been offline once for a couple
> of minutes (software update), besides the previously mentioned single
> hibernation period. As of today, the relay seems to have lost the 'Stable'
> flag, which I don't really understand.
> 
> Am I missing something here? I could not find documentation mentioning a
> relationship between accounting and the 'Stable' flag.
> 
> -Ralph

Any event where your relay is unreachable by the directory authorities
gets counted as something that could influence your Stable flag. Also,
the flag is given out in relation to the stability of the other relays.
Just keep your relay up and you should regain the flag.

Cheers
Sebastian

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