Tor client "Decided to publish new relay descriptor"
When logging at info level, my Tor client informs be about once per minute that it decided to publish a relay descriptor:
fk@r500 ~ $grep 'Decided to publish new relay' /usr/jails/tor-jail/usr/local/var/log/tor/info.log | tail Sep 06 22:42:16.255 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:43:17.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:44:18.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:45:19.255 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:46:20.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:47:21.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:48:22.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:49:23.254 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:50:24.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:51:25.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor
Given that it isn't actually a relay, that seems odd.
It's my impression that nothing actually gets published, though, at least (when idle), the log looks like this:
Sep 06 22:56:30.255 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:56:30.255 [info] {DIR} routerlist_remove_old_routers(): We have 2804 live routers and 0 old router descriptors. Sep 06 22:57:31.255 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:57:31.256 [info] {DIR} routerlist_remove_old_routers(): We have 2804 live routers and 0 old router descriptors. Sep 06 22:58:32.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor Sep 06 22:58:32.256 [info] {DIR} routerlist_remove_old_routers(): We have 2804 live routers and 0 old router descriptors. Sep 06 22:59:33.256 [info] {OR} mark_my_descriptor_dirty(): Decided to publish new relay descriptor: time for new descriptor
No messages from router_pick_published_address(), which I see on actual relays.
Another reason is 'config change', but it appears a lot less frequently.
It looks like the messages started to appear with Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha, but I only noticed them after the upgrade to 0.2.3.3-alpha.
I didn't get any such messages with Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.