[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):

 Replying to [comment:5 arma]:
 > My main reason for not thinking we should add complexity to directory
 authorities (by special-casing them further) is that I think it's
 dangerous to have directory authorities that need it. I guess if it's
 really the case that our directory authorities are hitting their bandwidth
 limits, we've already failed at that goal. So be it.

 I'm now fine with special-casing directory authorities so they don't carry
 traffic by default.

 Clients already avoid them for directory requests when there's a non-dir-
 auth available. Should we have clients avoid authorities for circuits too
 when there are 'enough' other relays available?

 Or said another way, how were you expecting to implement the idea?

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