Add a short paragraph to address questions about named routers.
Sebastian Hahn

Sebastian Hahn commited on 2009-02-12 00:21:26
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Maybe we should add another entry to explain that naming is bad and broken
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 <p>Running a Tor client:</p>
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 <p>Running a Tor relay:</p>
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+<ul>
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+<li><a href="#WhyNotNamed">Why is my Tor relay not named?</li>
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+</ul>
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 <p>Running a Tor hidden service:</p>
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+<a id="WhyNotNamed"></a>
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+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#WhyNotNamed">Why is my Tor relay not named?</a></h3>
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+<p>
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+We currently use these metrics to determine if your relay should be named:<br />
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+</p>
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+<ul>
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+<li>The name is not currently mapped to a different key. Existing mappings
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+are removed after 6 months of inactivity from a relay.</li>
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+<li>The relay must have been around for at least two weeks.</li>
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+<li>No other router may have wanted the same name in the past month.</li>
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+</ul>
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+<hr />
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 <a id="KeyManagement"></a>
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 <h3><a class="anchor" href="#KeyManagement">Tell me about all the keys
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 Tor uses.</a></h3>
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