[tor-dev] DocTor Check for <3 bw auth votes available

[nusenu]

Hi Damian,

would be great to have a check in DocTor that sends out an email
for "there are less than 3 bw auth voting auths available"

thanks,
nusenu

[teor]

Post by nusenu
Hi Damian,
would be great to have a check in DocTor that sends out an email
for "there are less than 3 bw auth voting auths available"

Let's have two different checks:
"There are less than 3 bw auth votes in a consensus"
"There are a large number of unmeasured relays"

T

[Damian Johnson]

Hi nusenu, hi teor. We already have a check that we have the expected
bandwidth authorities...

https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git/tree/consensus_health_checker.py#n541

... and that they're reasonably in sync...

https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git/tree/consensus_health_checker.py#n744

[nusenu]

Post by Damian Johnson
Hi nusenu, hi teor. We already have a check that we have the expected
bandwidth authorities...

By reading today's emails from
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-consensus-health

it is not clear that we are currently with <3 bw auths - would be nice to have that.
ideally with a string in the subject for easy catching in subject-based filters.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25222

[Damian Johnson]

Hi nusenu, the notice pretty clearly says that one isn't present...

"NOTICE: The following directory authorities are not reporting
bandwidth scanner results: gabelmoo"
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2018-February/008624.html

You're right that it doesn't tell you the number of authorities that
vote. If you'd care to add that to the message then feel free.

[nusenu]

Post by Damian Johnson
Hi nusenu, the notice pretty clearly says that one isn't present...
"NOTICE: The following directory authorities are not reporting
bandwidth scanner results: gabelmoo"
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2018-February/008624.html

(email from Tue Feb 27 07:05:55 UTC 2018)

"one" missing bw auth will not result in "<3 bw auth votes available".

2018-02-27 16:00 UTC was the first consensus on 2018-02-27 with "<3 bwauth votes".

I get the feeling that I'm annoying you so I'll try to stop that by avoiding any further
such DocTor requests.

thanks for stem,
nusenu

[Damian Johnson]

Post by nusenu
I get the feeling that I'm annoying you so I'll try to stop that by avoiding any further
such DocTor requests.

Hi nusenu, I'm not annoyed in the least - sorry if I gave that impression!

My read is that you asked for a notification when bandwidth
authorities are missing, which we already have. It's a simple
messaging change to say "we have X of Y" and if you'd care to send
that patch I'd be happy to merge it.

Cheers! -Damian