Hi, > On 26 Feb 2016, at 05:15, torser...@datakanja.de wrote: > > * Next, i noticed a frequent (daily) behavior of the Tor server > dropping traffic to around zero. Inspecting this, let me to > understand, my provider was disconnecting me and reassigning a new > IP on a daily basis, which took some time to propagate. Even worse: > It did not propagate on its own, i needed to restart the tor service > to reinitialise…
It should take tor about an hour to realise your address has changed, and another hour for it to propagate to the rest of the network. > * Asking in the online channel, i was guided to change my "Nickname" > torrc config to match the dyndns entry corresponding to my server. I hope you mean "Address" here. The "Nickname" is what your relay is called, the "Address" is where it is. > * But this never made it to the directories, thus forcing me to > manually restart Tor on a daily basis in order to force the changing > IP address into them. This could be an issue with your relay's DNS, or some of the other settings. Did you wait an hour or two? > * Finally, i was told, this behavior would be disruptive to the > network, i therefore brought the service down for good, wasting the > bandwith, i was willing to spend, for the near future. :-) That's a shame, tor will use relays that are only up for short periods of time for the middle of a circuit, and for rendezvous points for short-lived hidden service circuits. So it's not disruptive or useless. (It might slow down a few clients who try your relay for the few hours each day it takes to find its new IP address.) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F
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