On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: > Thanks, Sebastian, for the very quick reply. > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:25 +0100 Sebastian Hahn <m...@sebastianhahn.net> > wrote: >> On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Scott Bennett wrote: >>> The last consensus document expired about 15 hours ago. I understand >>> that the authority operators and tor developers are probably occupied with >>> fixing whatever is the trouble, but if someone in that group of individuals >>> can spare a moment to fill us in on what is happening, I, for one, would >>> greatly appreciate it. >>> FWIW, I think a page on the torproject.org web site for very brief >>> status updates on extraordinary situations like this one would be a good >>> and helpful addition. >>> Thanks much, and best of luck getting things working right again. >> >> People are indeed working to restore service. Currently it looks like > > Glad to know that. > >> two authorities are completely offline, and a couple others are too >> overloaded to function properly wrt voting. > > Hmm. Will this situation, then, result in a renewed effort to find > a few more people to run authorities?
The problem is that in the current situation, it gets worse with more authorities, not better. Our voting mechanism needs an overhaul :/ >> In the meantime you might like >> https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html which monitors the >> consensus. > > Thanks for that, too. It's not what I had in mind, but it is > interesting, nonetheless. what did you have in mind? _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays