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2021-08-17dir: Do not flag non-running failing HSDirDavid Goulet
When a directory request fails, we flag the relay as non Running so we don't use it anymore. This can be problematic with onion services because there are cases where a tor instance could have a lot of services, ephemeral ones, and keeps failing to upload descriptors, let say due to a bad network, and thus flag a lot of nodes as non Running which then in turn can not be used for circuit building. This commit makes it that we never flag nodes as non Running on a onion service directory request (upload or fetch) failure as to keep the hashring intact and not affect other parts of tor. Fortunately, the onion service hashring is _not_ selected by looking at the Running flag but since we do a 3-hop circuit to the HSDir, other services on the same instance can influence each other by removing nodes from the consensus for path selection. This was made apparent with a small network that ran out of nodes to used due to rapid succession of onion services uploading and failing. See #40434 for details. Fixes #40434 Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>