[tor-bugs] #4243 [Tor Hidden Services]: rend_consider_services_upload waits up to 4 hours to publish the first HS descriptor by default

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#4243: rend_consider_services_upload waits up to 4 hours to publish the first HS
descriptor by default
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 Reporter:  rransom              |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect               |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor Hidden Services  |        Version:                    
 Keywords:                       |         Parent:                    
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by special):

 As I noted on IRC yesterday, I don't believe this issue is valid; that may
 have been the intent of the code, but it looks like the desc_is_dirty flag
 in rend_consider_services_upload results in uploading descriptors as soon
 as possible after startup. That matches what I've observed.

 This does, of course, bring up the opposing bug: publishing descriptors
 immediately means that you can correlate the publication times for
 multiple services on the same Tor instance or with relay uptime.

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