On 28 Oct 2015, at 04:38, Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org wrote:
* Authorities serve as a location for distributing consensus documents, descriptors, extrainfo documents, and microdescriptors... * To directory mirrors. (BW?, PUB?, LOC?) * To clients that do not yet know a directory mirror. (BW!!, PUB)
The FallbackDirectory feature in #15775 will reduce authority bandwidth requirements if it is merged, as a list of high-uptime, stable mirrors will be consulted before, or simultaneously with (#4483, prop #210) the authorities.
Tim
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