David Goulet or Georg Koppen:
Can either of you confirm my question regarding whether the DirectoryAuthority
& FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup of a Tor instance?
I need to verify the best way to configure cloned, loadbalanced Tor Relay
Instances to interface with DirectoryAuthorities.
Presently, I have 5 Asuswrt RT-AC66U_B1 (2 Core CPU + 256MB) WiFi Routers (1 as
Nginx Loadbalancer + 4 AiMesh Nodes) schizophrenicly configured as cloned Tor
Relay Nodes pushing ~175GB (~10,000 circuits) of Tor traffic, daily, which is
working very well for such a small footprint.
With this final piece sorted, I'll be able to contribute a tutorial for
loadbalancing Tor Relays, which can be extrapolated to larger,
high-availability architectural implementations that appear as a single Tor
Node (opposed to having several Tor Nodes that comprise a family).
Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
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On Monday, October 18, 2021, 2:10:12 AM MDT, Gary C. New via tor-relays
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All:
Are the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives only evaluated at startup
of a Tor instance? I recently ran into an issue where my Tor Relay Farm went
down, due to the manually configured DirectoryAuthority going down and the
FallbackDir didn't seem to back it up.
I know that the DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir directives were intended to be
used in a private Tor network, but as I'm running a Tor Relay Farm where all
Tor Relay Nodes use a cloned .tordb–I need all the Tor Relay Nodes to talk to
the same DirectoryAuthority & FallbackDir.
Other than the DirectoryAuthority going down and a Medium-Term key update,
loadbalancing to a Tor Relay Farm has been working very well for a month or so.
Although, the fundamental Tor Relay client-based push reporting vs
DirectoryAuthority server-based pull reporting doesn't lend itself well to
accurately reporting Tor Metrics for a Tor Relay Farm. The DirectoryAuthority
observers the Tor Farm based on the individual Tor Relay Node that last
reported, so Tor Metrics are only shown for a single Tor Relay Node; while, in
reality the Tor Relay Farm is doing x4 - x5 the reported load. Knowing this,
you might reconsider the way metrics are reported in the future to accurately
report loadbalanced Tor Relays.
As always, thank you for all the work you do.
Respectfully,
Gary—
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