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authorteor <teor2345@gmail.com>2018-07-18 11:15:42 +1000
committerteor <teor2345@gmail.com>2018-07-18 11:26:33 +1000
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dir-spec: Authorities should only read V3BandwidthsFile once per vote
Closes 26827.
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http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/next/authority.z
+ To avoid inconsistent reads, authorities SHOULD only read the bandwidth
+ file once per voting period. Further processing and serving SHOULD use a
+ cached copy.
+
The bandwidth list format is described in bandwidth-file-spec.txt.
The standard URLs for bandwidth list files first-appeared in Tor 0.3.5.