Re: [tor-relays] Consensus weight dropped

On 20 Jan 2015, at 22:58, Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:

We've already known about this in the context of "the bandwidth authority scripts are very poorly tuned for the changes that have happened in the Tor network since the scripts were written, so they vote wildly varying numbers for relays". But I don't think that we'd realized the "some relays don't get three votes at all, so they basically get zeroed out" issue. Hm.

Yeah we knew about it actually, ot was discussed extensively but in a different context. We knew that each dirauth misses up to 40% of all relays in absolute amount, which means it misses an unknown amount of bandwidth. Grr.