[tor-bugs] #26702 [Core Tor/Tor]: Remind authority operators that bandwidth files should be transferred outside the voting period

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#26702: Remind authority operators that bandwidth files should be transferred
outside the voting period
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 Reporter:  teor                                 |          Owner:  teor
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.5.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  torspec, 035-removed-20180711,       |  Actual Points:
  fast-fix, doc                                  |
Parent ID:  #25925                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by teor):

 * status:  assigned => needs_review


Old description:

> Tor reads bandwidth files when it's voting, around 50 minutes past every
> hour, and 20 minutes past hours when the consensus has failed.
>
> We should recommend that authority operators generate and transfer
> bandwidth files between 5-15 or 35-45 minutes past the hour. The best
> place for this might be in dir-spec or the bandwidth file spec.

New description:

 Tor reads bandwidth files when it's voting, around 50 minutes past every
 hour, and 20 minutes past hours when the consensus has failed.

 We should recommend that authority operators generate and transfer
 bandwidth files ~~between 5-15 or 35-45 minutes~~ outside of 15-25 and
 45-55 minutes past the hour. ~~The best place for this might be in dir-
 spec or the bandwidth file spec.~~

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Comment:

 The appropriate place for this documentation is in the man page, under the
 V3BandwidthsFile option. It's the place that authority operators are most
 likely to look when configuring a bandwidth authority.

 Please see my branch ticket26702 on https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git

 (We could also document this requirement in sbws, but sbws does atomic
 symlinks, so it's only important when using scp from a different host.)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26702#comment:5>
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