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| author | teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com> | 2016-04-29 11:43:55 +1000 |
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| committer | teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com> | 2016-04-29 11:43:55 +1000 |
| commit | 46d813922ab891d934fca02d5511b7fbe18ebda8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4f457ec4a1add5bee50cf1d100ee8a935126ccc2 /scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py | |
| parent | de08f2d96bd1815a8da5c359a4f52310dc1905d7 (diff) | |
| download | tor-46d813922ab891d934fca02d5511b7fbe18ebda8.tar.gz tor-46d813922ab891d934fca02d5511b7fbe18ebda8.zip | |
Improve comments in fallback update script
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| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py b/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py index d27c1449ee..7e882a813b 100755 --- a/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py +++ b/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ #!/usr/bin/python # Usage: scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py > src/or/fallback_dirs.inc +# +# This script should be run from a stable, reliable network connection, +# with no other network activity (and not over tor). +# If this is not possible, please disable: +# PERFORM_IPV4_DIRPORT_CHECKS and PERFORM_IPV6_DIRPORT_CHECKS +# +# Needs dateutil (and potentially other python packages) # Needs stem available in your PYTHONPATH, or just ln -s ../stem/stem . # Optionally uses ipaddress (python 3 builtin) or py2-ipaddress (package) # for netblock analysis, in PYTHONPATH, or just @@ -1061,7 +1068,7 @@ class Candidate(object): downloader = DescriptorDownloader() start = datetime.datetime.utcnow() # some directory mirrors respond to requests in ways that hang python - # sockets, which is why we long this line here + # sockets, which is why we log this line here logging.info('Initiating consensus download from %s (%s:%d).', nickname, dirip, dirport) # there appears to be about 1 second of overhead when comparing stem's |