[tor-relays] Revised Opt-In Trial: Fallback Directory Mirrors

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> At 19:20 1/12/2016 +0100, Aeris wrote:
>>> Are you *absoultely* certain that the config
>>> was not fiddled with at the time of this event?
>> 
>> After grepping some logs, seems 13/12 was the day of a Tor
>> upgrade :
>> 
>> 2015-12-13 10:47:31 upgrade tor:amd64 0.2.7.5-1~d80.jessie+1 0.2.7.6-1~d80.jessie+1
>> 2015-12-13 10:48:39 configure tor:amd64 0.2.7.6-1~d80.jessie+1
>> 
>> Timing is good compare to the 10:48:46 of the consensus !
>> 
>> But I don’t remember a config change after that,
>> perhaps only on /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc
>> or on a default config param change ?
>> 
>> And perhaps the Tor reboot cause the DirPort to
>> be temporarily disabled (seems not human, only
>> 2s duration) ?

I wonder if the DirPort self-test finished ~62 seconds after the ORPort self-test?
(Or, strictly, after the first descriptor was submitted?)

That would explain the behaviour we're seeing here.
(And it shouldn't be grounds for exclusion as a fallback directory, let me see what I can do.)
Logged in trac as #18050.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18050 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18050>

Tim

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