[tor-bugs] #2014 [Torflow]: Bw Auths should have a backup bw server

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#2014: Bw Auths should have a backup bw server
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 Reporter:  mikeperry                        |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement                      |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  major                            |      Milestone:           
Component:  Torflow                          |        Version:           
 Keywords:  MikePerryIterationFires20111120  |         Parent:           
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Replying to [comment:12 phobos]:
 > 38.229.70.2 has been dead for a year or so. The IP you've been using for
 the past year or so is aroides.torproject.org, which also hosts
 archive.torproject.org. The migration of aroides to our own VM server
 changed the IP. I don't understand why bwauth.torproject.org can't be
 used.

 Actually, https://38.229.70.2/ is currently in use by the bw auths as we
 speak. The plan was for it to stay in use and have the additional IP of
 https://38.229.72.16/ used for redundancy.

 Again, I don't want to involve DNS because exits can fail at it, and I'd
 prefer we still scan them in that case.

 We can figure out how to special-case DNS failures later, but right now my
 opinion is they are SoaT-domain failures. The bw auths should not need to
 worry about them at all.

 > > Can we fix them to do proper http/1.1 with a hostname?  Or, if we
 can't,
 > > is it easy to have them fetch stuff not from / but from a directory
 below like /bwauth/ ?

 The subdirectory is fine. http/1.1 is not.

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