Hello
I run a relay (milanese) and an exit (sorrentini), both are located in Asia so the bw authority measures of their bw are not great.
In one of the sites where i run this relays i have spare bandwidth to use (and i can't run an exit there) I'm thinking on running a bw authority to help mine and other's relays in Asia
It is feasible to do that? Could a "regular" relay administrator run bw auth? Would somebody running a directory auth would scan my bw auth to check the results?
How hard is the maintenance of this service? The setup is more complex than a relay but nothing that i cannot handle. However i wonder about the ongoing maintenance. I'd run it on a VM on Linode, I don't have access to physical hw
thanks!
should I run a bw scanner authority?
Most likely not. Running a bw authority makes only sense if the results are also used by a dir auth, so unless your best friend is a dir auth operator you would first have to find a dir auth op that trusts your results. The bw scanner system is currently also being replaced by a new scanner software (sbws).
If you have spare bw, you can run more tor relays, that is always appreciated and does not require a trust relationship with a dir auth operator.
thanks for helping the tor network! nusenu
Toralf Förster:
On 08/12/2018 04:23 PM, nusenu wrote:
The bw scanner system is currently also being replaced by a new scanner software (sbws).
When will this be finished?
its work in progress, I don't think there is an exact timeline
teor wrote:
we need to know if we can switch to sbws, and we can’t use sbws unless it has reasonable results.
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