[tor-bugs] #24767 [Core Tor/Tor]: All relays are constantly connecting to down relays and failing over and over

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#24767: All relays are constantly connecting to down relays and failing over and
over
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 Reporter:  arma                                 |          Owner:  dgoulet
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
                                                 |  merge_ready
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.3.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-relay, tor-dos, performance,     |  Actual Points:
  review-group-32, 033-must, review-group-34,    |
  033-triage-20180320, 033-included-20180320     |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:
 Reviewer:  asn                                  |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by dgoulet):

 Replying to [comment:41 asn]:
 > Much better!
 >
 > On a meta level, should we open a ticket about writing this behavior on
 our spec? Also, would it be better in the future, if we switch from static
 60 seconds lifetime, to some sort of backoff algorithm, or to a consensus
 param? Should we open a ticket for this?

 Yes! I think we could do much better in a second iteration. A backoff of
 some sort with knobs we can change through the consensus.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24767#comment:43>
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