We will begin disqualifying any Nodes that have been unresponsive for over 30 days.
Please note this is different from disqualification due to offline audits.
In this case, the disqualifying criteria will be the last time your Node was successfully contacted.
If your Node has been offline for a while, and you don’t want to be disqualified, please be sure to get your Node back up and running right away to avoid being disqualified.
This change will go into effect with the planned March 8, 2021 release.
How are offline audits different from this if I may ask? Staying offline for less than 30 days should already bring your score down enough to get kicked out no?
You are correct! In most cases, offline audits should do the job. However, the main problem is that the node needs to be audited in order to get caught.
Since we haven’t had any repercussions for downtime for a while now, we have a large number of nodes that have long been abandoned and all their pieces have been repaired, yet they are not DQd, and they won’t get audits!
Ahhh so you go offline and due to rare circumstances of not having enough or any data they will not be caught in the offline vetting process as it stands, so you applied a timer to it to fix that and cull the inactive nodes.
Interestingly, it turns out now, purely in theory, the satellite operator can “disable” (shadow ban) any node, simply by making “copies” of the pieces on other nodes?
I’m not sure what you mean. Maybe my wording was unclear.
There are two paths to DQ here.
You are audited too much while you are offline
The satellite has not talked to your node at all in the last 30 days.
The second path is mostly a means of cleaning up nodes who already left us a long time ago. Since they left a long time ago, all of their pieces have been repaired. When the new offline audit DQ comes inito effect, they will be immune. No pieces, no audits, no DQ.
It would also require the satellite to not allow any uploads to the node, otherwise the process of removing all pieces would go on indefinitely.
Also nice name. “Beta tester” was taken?
