Dear Mario, In almost 2 years I've been running a middle relay from home, I have had about 15 ip changes. One time they came and replaced my equipment and it was down about 5 hours. It started back up with about 6 connections, but was back at a full 3000 in a few hours. I've never had a guard flag, even with my current 3+months tor uptime with the same ip address. I only run a terabyte a month through it, so maybe that's too little, though it does have the fast flag.
The first 6 or 8 months before a new tor version came out, there was a lot more traffic than I wanted to handle, just to keep under my ISP's radar, so I had the config set up to turn off tor when the daily limit was reached, usually between 8 and 10 pm. Then it would start up again after midnight. I asked if this was still worth it, and the gurus said yes. So I'd say that a few ip changes are going to be small potatoes compared to turning the relay off for hours every night. So glad you are running a relay. "A chicken in every pot, and a relay in every house." --torix Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:19 PM, Mario Costa <mario.co...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I started a new relay at home. I was really surprised to see it gain a Guard > flag in about a week since it first came online. My first relay (on a VPS) > became a Guard well over a month after I set it up. How can I assess what was > different this time? > > Also, I’m wondering what will happen when the dynamic IP changes. Sooner or > later I’ll have a power outage or restart the modem. Last time my IP changed > it happened overnight for no evident reason. Will this relay lose its flags? > Is a really with a dynamic IP address useful at all? > > Cheers, > > -m > > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
