On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:09, teor <teor2345@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <saitosean@ymail.com> wrote:

>"No Self-Referencing Relays"

>I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily

>config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt?

>The unnecessary descriptor space/bw?

 

This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were ugly.  If the

penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the self-connections themselves, we're

both fine with removing it.

Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated entirely?)

Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration variants.

Tim

I agree, and this one in particular is important to some operators: by allowing a relay to specify itself in the family, one can just have a single configuration file for all relays in a family. 

Tom

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