[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:                    
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Comment(by Sebastian):

 It was my idea to not have them in the consensus at all, yeah.

 I looked around in master and didn't see anything where we'd fail to work,
 and ran a test network, which didn't have any problems bootstrapping and
 being used. The situation looks to be a bit more complex in maint-0.2.1
 and 0.2.2. If we decide to try this, we'd need more careful evaluation
 there.

 As for why I'm favoring this approach, I'm mostly worried that we have
 some cornercase where relays without the Fast flag are preferred for
 traffic, and we end up pushing lots of users onto the dirauths when we
 lower traffic. Also I would generally like to head in a direction where
 dirauths aren't required to speak the Tor protocol as much, can't act as
 clients/HS, etc. For example, maybe bugs like the one plaguing tor26 that
 stem from the HS client code we left over could be avoided.

 All that said, I'd also be happy to only go so far as to remove all the
 flags from dirauths and see where we stand then.

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