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| author | teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com> | 2015-12-07 18:07:44 +1100 |
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| committer | teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com> | 2015-12-16 04:37:59 +1100 |
| commit | 2212530bf59acb95ca9bb0278e51306e847105b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9df5a73b901d2f282656d1990770046fdafa81d7 /doc/tor.1.txt | |
| parent | 35bbf2e4a4e8ccbc4126ebffda67c48989ec2f06 (diff) | |
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Prop210: Close excess connections once a consensus is downloading
Once tor is downloading a usable consensus, any other connection
attempts are not needed.
Choose a connection to keep, favouring:
* fallback directories over authorities,
* connections initiated earlier over later connections
Close all other connections downloading a consensus.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 77e4c4e8fe..2d95a5451f 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -360,8 +360,11 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS [[FallbackDir]] **FallbackDir** __address__:__port__ orport=__port__ id=__fingerprint__ [weight=__num__]:: When we're unable to connect to any directory cache for directory info - (usually because we don't know about any yet) we try a FallbackDir. - By default, the directory authorities are also FallbackDirs. + (usually because we don't know about any yet) we try a directory authority. + Clients also simultaneously try a FallbackDir, to avoid hangs on client + startup if a directory authority is down. Clients retry FallbackDirs more + often than directory authorities, to reduce the load on the directory + authorities. [[DirAuthority]] **DirAuthority** [__nickname__] [**flags**] __address__:__port__ __fingerprint__:: Use a nonstandard authoritative directory server at the provided address |