[tor-bugs] #4483 [Tor Client]: If k of n authorities are down, k/n bootstrapping clients are delayed for minutes

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#4483: If k of n authorities are down, k/n bootstrapping clients are delayed for
minutes
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 Reporter:  arma                                                 |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                                               |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                                               |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Client                                           |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  performance bootstrap dos-resistance needs-proposal  |         Parent:  #2664             
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Comment(by arma):

 I had been imagining a design where we launch a further consensus fetch
 request every 5 seconds if the current one(s) haven't established a
 connection; but we don't hang up on the earlier ones until a much larger
 timeout. That way in the good case we don't make any more connections than
 now, but we failover much faster.

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