[tor-dev] [tor-project] Intent to Minimise Effort: Fallback Directory Mirrors

[Tom Ritter]

On 8 January 2018 at 20:56, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Add a torrc option and descriptor line to opt-in as a FallbackDir [4]

Setting a config entry is easy and requires no thought. It's easy to
set without understanding the requirements or implications. Getting a
personal email and request for one's relay to keep a stable IP lends a
lot of gravity to the importance of it.

Are you worried about that?

Work-wise, the worst thing that would happen is that the list just
needs to be regenerated more frequently - I think? But user-wise
people on those older versions will have significantly increased
startup times if only 20% of their FallbackDirs are working...

-tom