NOTE: this email has been written around 2024-10-30 19:00 UTC, about 2.5 hours ago. As I was testing stuff, suddenly I got flags and *some* traffic on my node. It also appeared back in atlas as mysteriously as it did disappear. Nonetheless I’m sending the email, hoping it is helpful, and will report back in a week.
Can you check to see if your relay is in a similar situation?
In particular, the situation to look for is "Tor process is still running fine from your perspective, but, relay-search (https://atlas.torproject.org/) says you are no longer running."
Hello, I see the same with my node.
Prompted by a fall in traffic I checked relay-search a few days ago and found the relay is no longer listed. Going through the logs it seems there is no new circuits being made since October 23. In Nyx I see at most a few incoming and outgoing connections.
The node is mpan11 92A125B9AB491AFC084E4257B552D0FB56090CB3, and this is the first time in about 10 years I experience anything like that.
If your relay is in this situation, the next step is to check your Tor logs, try to rule out other issues like firewall rules on your side, and then (if you're able) to start exploring traceroutes to the directory authority IP addresses vs other addresses. If you need more direct help, we can help you debug or answer other questions on #tor-relays on IRC.
Traceroutes from the node listed in [1]. From two other hosts (French, German VPS) all addresses except maatuska are accessible, and the final hops are similar. I asked a friend (same ISP, city) to ping all the addresses that don’t respond and they confirmed no ping responses. However, maatuska seems to respond to ICMP pings.
If that helps, on October 23 I see some entries[2] I don’t recall ever seeing. This did happen when my network connection died for about 10 minutes around 01:20. At 22 I had to reboot the system and since then the node reports 0 circuits. But that may be just a coincidence and the responses might’ve been ISP’s modem interfering in some way.
____ [1] Traceroutes, to 30 hops. ‘…’ indicates no more replies: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # moria1 $ tracepath -b 128.31.0.39 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.499ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 15.434ms 3: no reply …
# tor26 $ tracepath -b 217.196.147.77 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.359ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 3.782ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 3.833ms 3: war-r21.tpnet.pl (80.50.19.25) 2.383ms asymm 4 4: win-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.153.224) 12.699ms 5: as33891-ic-331887.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.13.142) 16.619ms asymm 6 6: ae5-2058.slz10.core-backbone.com (81.95.2.50) 19.534ms asymm 9 7: core-backbone.conova.at (5.56.17.86) 17.129ms asymm 12 8: 149.3.164.138 (149.3.164.138) 18.783ms asymm 13 9: reliant-gw.noreply.org (185.69.162.222) 27.474ms asymm 13 10: tor.cypherpunks.eu (217.196.147.77) 30.815ms !H
# dizum $ tracepath -b 45.66.35.11 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.739ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.716ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 5.480ms 3: war-r21.tpnet.pl (80.50.19.25) 4.162ms asymm 4 4: win-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.153.224) 15.974ms 5: win-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.114.182) 22.121ms asymm 6 6: ffm-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.138.22) 26.017ms asymm 8 7: adm-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.137.222) 30.844ms asymm 9 8: no reply 9: novoserve-ic-354347.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.188.167) 31.944ms asymm 8 10: no reply 11: no reply 12: no reply 13: tor.dizum.com (45.66.35.11) 34.349ms reached
# gabelmoo $ tracepath -b 131.188.40.189 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 2.812ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 1.120ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 11.639ms 3: no reply …
# dannenberg $ tracepath -b 193.23.244.244 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.563ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 5.746ms 3: war-r22.tpnet.pl (80.50.20.25) 6.182ms 4: win-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (213.248.103.4) 13.986ms 5: win-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.114.184) 16.536ms asymm 6 6: mcn-b1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.136.41) 20.223ms asymm 7 7: mcn-b3-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.127.30) 19.945ms 8: interlinkgmbh-ic-381330.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.186.123) 18.466ms asymm 9 9: r1-str1-de.as5405.net (94.103.180.27) 62.334ms (This broken router returned corrupted payload) asymm 15 10: r4-fra2-de.as5405.net (94.103.180.11) 38.532ms (This broken router returned corrupted payload) asymm 14 11: r4-fra1-de.as5405.net (94.103.180.7) 36.582ms (This broken router returned corrupted payload) asymm 12 12: r3-ber1-de.as5405.net (94.103.180.2) 37.920ms asymm 11 13: cust-syseleven.r3-ber1-de.as5405.net (45.153.82.11) 38.488ms asymm 12 14: ae0-0.blu1-r2.de.syseleven.net (109.68.226.26) 39.453ms asymm 16 15: ae2-0.bak1-r1.syseleven.net (109.68.226.23) 41.234ms asymm 14 16: no reply 17: dannenberg.torauth.de (193.23.244.244) 34.575ms reached
# maatuska $ tracepath -b 171.25.193.9 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 3.200ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.674ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 8.933ms 3: war-r21.tpnet.pl (80.50.19.25) 5.954ms asymm 4 4: win-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.153.224) 12.257ms 5: win-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.114.182) 13.424ms asymm 6 6: ffm-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.138.22) 24.160ms asymm 9 7: kbn-bb6-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.114.94) 40.453ms asymm 10 8: kbn-b1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.143.7) 35.856ms 9: globalconnect-ic-368141.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.185.221) 37.018ms 10: 146.247.201.152 (146.247.201.152) 44.090ms asymm 9 11: no reply 12: no reply 13: 195.225.184.150 (195.225.184.150) 48.578ms asymm 15 14: rs2.dfri.net (171.25.193.225) 46.928ms asymm 16 15: rs2.dfri.net (171.25.193.225) 48.011ms pmtu 1420 15: no reply …
# longclaw $ tracepath -b 199.58.81.140 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.679ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 1.245ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 5.817ms 3: no reply …
# bastet $ tracepath -b 204.13.164.118 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 1.010ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.293ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 6.126ms 3: war-r21.tpnet.pl (80.50.19.25) 4.701ms asymm 4 4: win-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (213.248.103.4) 14.664ms 5: be1300.ccr51.vie01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.14.181) 26.007ms asymm 7 6: be2974.ccr21.muc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.58.5) 27.318ms asymm 9 7: be5516.ccr41.fra05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.62.121) 26.305ms asymm 8 8: be5340.ccr42.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.62.210) 30.990ms asymm 9 9: be12194.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.56.93) 122.662ms asymm 13 10: be3042.ccr21.ymq01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.162) 129.524ms asymm 11 11: be3393.ccr31.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.141) 125.119ms 12: be3600.ccr22.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.221) 125.220ms asymm 10 13: be2718.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.129) 137.118ms asymm 10 14: be2717.ccr41.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.221) 130.040ms asymm 10 15: be3802.ccr21.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.165.77) 144.294ms asymm 10 16: be5456.ccr32.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.45.166) 185.868ms asymm 11 17: be5823.ccr21.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.167.146) 199.296ms asymm 11 18: be5823.ccr21.sea02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.167.146) 194.850ms asymm 11 19: bastet.readthefinemanual.net (204.13.164.118) 200.905ms reached
# faravahar $ tracepath -b 216.218.219.41 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 1.493ms 1: _gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.774ms 2: war-bng10.neo.tpnet.pl (83.1.5.194) 7.927ms 3: no reply …
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[2] Logs entries before the issue started: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 23 01:27:03 null Tor[368865]: Received http status code 302 ("Moved Temporarily") from server 217.196.147.77:80 while fetching consensus directory. Oct 23 01:27:55 null Tor[368865]: Received http status code 302 ("Moved Temporarily") from server 204.13.164.118:80 while fetching consensus directory. Oct 23 01:27:55 null Tor[368865]: Received http status code 302 ("Moved Temporarily") from server 204.13.164.118:80 while fetching consensus directory. Oct 23 01:28:55 null Tor[368865]: Received http status code 302 ("Moved Temporarily") from server 217.196.147.77:80 while fetching consensus directory. -----------------------------------------------------------------------