[tor-bugs] #3023 [Tor Directory Authority]: Tor directory authorities should not act as regular relays/hsdirs

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#3023: Tor directory authorities should not act as regular relays/hsdirs
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 Reporter:  Sebastian                |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                   |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor Directory Authority  |        Version:                    
 Keywords:                           |         Parent:                    
   Points:                           |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by arma):

 I could go either way here. That is, I'm not sure if I want to triage this
 into 'minor priority for 0.2.3.x' or into the 'tor: unspecified'
 milestone.

 I don't think it's urgent to make this change; the particular issue that
 prompted Sebastian to make this trac entry turned out to be a false
 positive, and I don't know of any others that are biting us much
 currently.

 We'd want to think harder about the design in any case, since for smaller
 Tor networks the directory authorities could be a substantial fraction of
 the network (heck, the Ironkey Tor network has no nodes that aren't
 authorities).

 I guess one reason to make this change is because eventually Mike's bwauth
 scripts will make moot the MaxAdvertisedBandwidth hack that we use to
 discourage 'too much' relay traffic on authorities. I say 'eventually'
 because his scripts aren't robust/accurate enough to detect the hack.

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