[tor-bugs] #572 [Tor Client]: fallback-consensus file impractical to use

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#572: fallback-consensus file impractical to use
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 Reporter:  arma                                          |           Type:  enhancement
   Status:  needs_review                                  |       Priority:  major      
Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final                            |      Component:  Tor Client 
  Version:  0.2.0.9-alpha                                 |     Resolution:  None       
 Keywords:  performance bootstrap dirauth-dos-resistance  |         Parent:  #2664      
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Comment(by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:28 mikeperry]:
 > Ok, I reviewed this, but a couple more comments/questions:
 >
 > 1. Making the dirauths also fallback dir mirrors might complicate with
 how we want to handle #4483. I think we want to be able to say "attempt to
 get the consensus from D dirauths and M fallback mirrors" somehow. See
 comment 5 there for details. It looks like we can still the inspect
 dir_server_t is_authority flag to get this done, but that might be a
 reason for keeping them in fully disjoint lists instead? Or maybe not,
 since it's not the common case...

 I think it's pretty easy to tweak the rules for what frequency trusted
 authorities get picked when we're looking for fallback mirrors.  I think
 that while the design for #4483 is still in progress (and IMO maybe in
 need of a proposal), it'd be fine to merge this with the idea that we
 might need to tweak it some later.

 > 2. Can you add an example fallback dirserver line in the comments for
 add_default_fallback_dir_servers()? It looks like a subset of the dirauth
 line syntax is acceptable, but an example would be great.

 Good idea.  I'll add one once we know that we want to have fallback dir
 servers. :)  For now, the manpage should be pretty much what you want. (I
 hope I added a manpage entry or wow will that last sentence sound stupid.)

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