Reachability Testing passes, yet Relay is marked as down by authorities
We've had reports from many operators of historically stable and well-running relays that their relays have lately been falling out of the consensus. They do test reachability successfully for both dirport and orport, and publish a descriptor to the authorities, which they acknowledge as valid.
In debugging and testing this more, I looked at BarkerJrParis B1BFFE96D67CC1BD7EF6A9D4AC618AF681012A3E 92.243.8.139:21 Trying to use this relay as a bridge fails, as circuit building times out. Using openssl s_client -connect 92.243.8.139:21 gives a valid-looking cert, though; and the connecting Tor doesn't provide any debug log messages that would have helped me to track down the cause.
BarkerJR mentioned that this occurred after restarting Tor. A few weeks earlier, he had updated openssl, but not restarted Tor since then. I have no data from the other relay operators on openssl versions, platform, tor version etc that they're using, but will try to get them to update the bug report here.
My current theory is that something prevents a circuit to be established with the relay, after the initial connection is made, and that this connection and sending of certs is enough to make reachabilitytesting pass, thus confusing the relay into believing that it is in fact reachable.
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