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This seems to started after I specified an IPv6 address for my ORPort. Everything server side indicates my DirPort is reachable, but Tor Metrics (not tor on my server) says it is unreachable (although I am reachable by IPv6 and IPv4 on my ORPort, according to the site). At the same time I set my IPv6, I did also limit my AccountingMax to 20TB out, renewing every month

Tor logs indicate that testing proved my DirPort reachable. I am running Tor 0.3.5.7 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 server x86_64.

EDIT: I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10 and Tor 0.3.5.8, and the issue persists

SOLVED For some reason, if I don't set AuthoritativeDirectory to 1, along with bridge authority, it doesn't seem to publish me as a directory relay. Originally, I thought it might be a ports issue, but I run an Apache webserver off of ports 80&443 and have no issue

Now my question is: why is this happening?

Everything indicated I set it up correctly. Is there any way to see if my dirport is being used?

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As per changelog, Tor, starting with 0.4.6, no longer publishes any DirPort:

Removed features (relay):

  • Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work, for now.) Closes ticket 40282.

DirPort is deprecated and should no longer be configured.

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Now my question is: why was this happening? Does Tor not allow a DirPort of 80? I can verify it was unblocked, and nothing should have been using it (nor was it when I checked)

I host my VPS with Hetzner, they don't block ports that I'm aware of

It seems as your VPS doesn't allow some customers to open port 80. Thats the only explanation I could think of. It happend to me when I tried to host a website on a VPS. After some chatting with customer support, they said that they block certain ports on a low price VPS plans.

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