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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2007-05-13 00:46:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2007-05-13 00:46:50 +0000 |
| commit | f597b73dc0667910c60341780be1c811dc9380b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 193337b4f7cd03feca0e999f20cbfdfe2fb3345a /doc | |
| parent | 2ded13ecdc3e102657daa0cc45d4c44602b5e327 (diff) | |
| download | tor-f597b73dc0667910c60341780be1c811dc9380b1.tar.gz tor-f597b73dc0667910c60341780be1c811dc9380b1.zip | |
backport r10153 and r10156
svn:r10177
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/spec/dir-spec.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt index 9d7c399a3b..6d71cbf9f9 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt @@ -642,9 +642,10 @@ $Id$ When choosing which documents to download, clients treat their list of directory authorities as a circular ring, and begin with the authority appearing immediately after the authority for their most recently - retrieved network-status document. If this attempt fails, the client - retries at other caches several times, before moving on to the next - network-status document in sequence. + retrieved network-status document. If this attempt fails (either it + fails to download at all, or the one it gets is not as good as the + one it has), the client retries at other caches several times, before + moving on to the next network-status document in sequence. Clients discard all network-status documents over 24 hours old. |