[tor-bugs] #21969 [Core Tor/Tor]: We're missing descriptors for some of our primary entry guards

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#21969: We're missing descriptors for some of our primary entry guards
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 Reporter:  asn                                  |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.3.0.6
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-proposal, tor-guard, tor-      |  Actual Points:
  bridge, tor-client, tbb-needs,                 |
  034-triage-20180328, 034-removed-20180328      |
Parent ID:  #30817                               |         Points:  1.5
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 Thanks for the bug reports, but they aren't really helping us make
 progress on this issue.

 We know that tor needs some design changes to resolve this issue:

 Replying to [comment:93 teor]:
 > #16844 and #21969 have conflicting goals, so we need to write a proposal
 that balances these goals. See #30817.

 In particular, tor needs to try harder to download descriptors if it has a
 good link, but backoff if it has a bad link, so that at least some
 descriptors can download. We don't know which case applies to your tor
 instance, because you only sent us 1 second worth of logs.

 If you'd like, we can make a ticket that delays those annoying logs until
 tor has been missing descriptors for an hour or so.
 That is a simple change, it will stop annoying relay operators, and it
 might get us better diagnostics.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21969#comment:99>
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