On 4 Dec 2016 9:58 pm, "Rana" ranaventures@gmail.com wrote:

That was exactly my point, thank you Anemoi. This is the case all over the world, not just in Germany. Unfortunately there seems to be a culture of shooting the messenger here, or accusing him of being “aggressive”, “accusatory”, “claiming entitlement” or (my favorite) “lacking programming skills”, in addition to politely phrased suggestions to ditch my relay and pay for a VPS with a fixed IP.

The idea of running a volunteer based network for public good is to use every possible resource offered by volunteers, and if DirAuth algorithms need to be adapted for this, such proposal should be taken seriously. I for one am positive that a huge amount of bandwidth that could have been be donated, is lost this way.

My understanding is that the DirAuth servers just measure how it would be for users near them. It seems users from several locations using your relay would not get more than 14KB/s so it would be very bad to send more people to your relay as it would make tor unusable for them.

The most likely reason would be that your ISP is lacking good connectivity to a large part of internet (this happens to a number of not so small ISPs) but there could be plenty of other reasons.

Still if they see your relay slow, it will be slow for many users too, so it is a good thing to not send those users, whoever the fault it is.

If this does not make technical sense (which I doubt but I may be wrong), rephrasing the guidelines and officially saying on the Tor page that operators behind dynamic IP are only welcome if they run bridges would be fine – but this isn’t not the case as of now. I hope Tor developers or whoever runs the Tor project are reading this.

*From:* tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces@lists.torproject.org] *On Behalf Of *anemoi@tutanota.de *Sent:* Sunday, December 04, 2016 9:24 PM

*To:* tor-relays@lists.torproject.org *Subject:* Re: [tor-relays] Unwarranted discrimination of relays with dynamic IP

In Germany, it's quite usual that you have a dynamic IP and unusual that you have static IP. Not just a few relays are located in Germany. It's not just a question of frustration of owners of dynamic IP relay, but also a matter of bandwith waste. If Tor cannot handle dynamic IPs properly a lot of bandwith is not used. And bandwith is something that the Tor network can not get enough of.

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