Create replacement bwscan server

It appears that someone wiped the Cymru bandwidth VM and didn't replace it with anything. We are down to only 4 bw auths as a result.

Can we spin up a new VM for this? We need at least 1G of memory, and of course significant bw capacity.

I think this VM needs to be paired with urass, but I suppose it could be any of the other dirauths instead.

added component::internal services/tor sysadmin team priority::medium resolution::not a bug status::closed type::defect labels

how much bw does it need?

we have serra available now if needed.

I think it needs at least 10mbit downstream, but we have noticed higher capacity measurements from bw auth servers on better uplinks than residential cable modems.

What type of uplink does serra have? How much RAM does it have?

Replying to mikeperry:

I think it needs at least 10mbit downstream, but we have noticed higher capacity measurements from bw auth servers on better uplinks than residential cable modems.

It's on a 50mb down link.

What type of uplink does serra have? How much RAM does it have?

10 mb uplink. and just login to serra silly, 8 GB.

Is that what should be running on sewerzowi?

I'm confused. Is this a bandwidth authority or exit authority? Sewerzowi is the bandwidth authority that replaced the dead bandwidth VM roughly 2 years ago.

Replying to phobos:

I'm confused. Is this a bandwidth authority or exit authority? Sewerzowi is the bandwidth authority that replaced the dead bandwidth VM roughly 2 years ago.

This ticket seems to be about BwAuthority. Urras doesn't have one yet.

why not just use sewerzowi?

Replying to phobos:

why not just use sewerzowi?

Isn't Mike's DirAuth already using sewerzowi?

It's a world-readable webserver. I was unaware we needed a single pair of bwauth to dirauth.

Correct. I am already using sewerzowi. We can't use sewerzowi's results more than once. We can't use serra as it is on the same network as sewerzowi.

The 5th bw authority we added for SponsorF in #1778 (moved) was maatuska. We have not added any others since.

The bandwidth authority that was destroyed was a CentOS box running in Cymru's cloud setup. We need a new 5th one to replace it.

I could setup one in iceland.

Put it in USA, otherwise i will get crap bw

Trac:
Username: hsn

I think the answer is someone should run a bwauth as they please somewhere on the Internet. And then point another dirauth at it.

If this is for an authority on the public tor network then its bw auth should not run on torproject.org infrastructure.

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug

closed