[tor-relays] Relay no longer acting as a gaurd node?

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Hi All,

A little while ago one of my relays switched from usually acting as a
guard node to never acting as a guard node:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9715C81BA8C5B0C698882035F75C67D6D643DBE3

Doesn't matter to me if it's a guard or not jsut want to understand
what's changed and if it's a problem. Do I have a misconfiguration?

-Jon

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I've thought the same, but then I checked relays running 0.4.8.7 version and many (most?) of them are guard nodes: Relay Search

I noticed that the author have updated their node to 0.4.8.8 version and still doesn't have the guard flag.

Best,
Bart

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On 9.11.2023 16:47, Albert Larsan via tor-relays wrote:

On 11/9/23 16:03, Jonathan Proulx wrote:

A little while ago one of my relays switched from usually acting as a
guard node to never acting as a guard node:

Relay Search

Doesn't matter to me if it's a guard or not jsut want to understand
what's changed and if it's a problem. Do I have a misconfiguration?

I think this is because your relay is not up-to-date, you should update to the latest version available (0.4.8.8 at time of writing, though from what I can tell 0.4.8.9 was just released).

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Just wondering, you haven’t set a bandwidth limit on that node, have you? Setting an AccountingMax directive will cause you to lose your Guard flag since your server can’t be available at all times.

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On 11/9/2023 10:03 AM, Jonathan Proulx wrote:

Hi All,

A little while ago one of my relays switched from usually acting as a
guard node to never acting as a guard node:

[https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9715C81BA8C5B0C698882035F75C67D6D643DBE3](https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/9715C81BA8C5B0C698882035F75C67D6D643DBE3)

Doesn't matter to me if it's a guard or not jsut want to understand
what's changed and if it's a problem. Do I have a misconfiguration?

-Jon


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Thanks Alex, I do have the node configured to automatically apply security updates and reboot as needed so at first I though that might be biting me, but I did have three reboots to the same kernel version so maybe there were some transient issues:

$ last reboot
reboot system boot 5.4.0-166-generi Tue Oct 31 19:43 still running
reboot system boot 5.4.0-165-generi Sat Oct 28 02:00 - 19:43 (3+17:42)
reboot system boot 5.4.0-165-generi Tue Oct 24 03:27 - 02:00 (3+22:33)
reboot system boot 5.4.0-165-generi Sat Oct 21 02:00 - 02:00 (6+23:59)
reboot system boot 5.4.0-164-generi Sat Oct 7 02:00 - 02:00 (13+23:59)

I did miss the missing stable flag and that definitely explains my state.

Thanks,
-Jon

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On Friday, November 10th, 2023 at 9:19 AM, Alex Xu \(Hello71\) via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:

I'm not sure what the MTBF criteria are now, but
restarting more than once a week will probably disqualify a relay from
being a Guard.