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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/spec/dir-spec.txt')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt index 9ebe929561..6d3a4726b1 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ $Id$ 1.1. What's different from version 2? - Clients used to download a multiple network status documents, + Clients used to download multiple network status documents, corresponding roughly to "status votes" above. They would compute the result of the vote on the client side. @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ $Id$ implementations MUST prefix items not recognized by older versions of Tor with an "opt" until those versions of Tor are obsolete. [Note that key certificates, status vote documents, extra info documents, and - status consensus documents will never by read by older versions of Tor.] + status consensus documents will never be read by older versions of Tor.] Other implementations that want to extend Tor's directory format MAY introduce their own items. The keywords for extension items SHOULD start @@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ $Id$ FU: The consensus is no longer the freshest consensus. - FU ... (the current descriptor's VU): Clients download the consensus. - (See note above: clients guess that the next descriptor's FU will be + FU ... (the current consensus's VU): Clients download the consensus. + (See note above: clients guess that the next consensus's FU will be two intervals after the current VA.) VU: The consensus is no longer valid. @@ -353,6 +353,13 @@ $Id$ - Its uptime has been reset (by restarting). + [XXX this list is incomplete; see router_differences_are_cosmetic() + in routerlist.c for others] + + ORs SHOULD NOT publish a new router descriptor or extra-info document + if none of the above events have occurred and not much time has passed + (12 hours by default). + After generating a descriptor, ORs upload them to every directory authority they know, by posting them (in order) to the URL |