[tor-relays] Ticket #18489

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:07:07PM +0100, Felix wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I stumbled over [1]. As I operate Doedel26 I checked
> DownloadExtraInfo was default. After change in torrc to 1 and reload
> 'cached-extrainfo' showed up in /var/db/tor/.
> 
> Can someone please advice how to deal with it ?
> 
> Best regards, Felix
> 
> [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18489

I think the answer is you, the relay operator, shouldn't have to do
anything.

My guess is that it's a bug in somebody's expectation for how to
implement the fallbackdirectory design. The fix might be something
like "teach clients who are trying to fetch extrainfo descs to not
ask relays who don't offer them".

Once some devs, especially teor, recover from the Valencia meeting,
I expect this one will be easy to resolve.

--Roger