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| author | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2007-05-10 05:12:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> | 2007-05-10 05:12:20 +0000 |
| commit | cd23b65a0771ddfb1b40aae126a3abd2bf33dadf (patch) | |
| tree | fa89337faec92a9d45826b13e981ad098230a0f2 /doc | |
| parent | 8e8144cd5893c22b2b60bc1ad0ebda715848baec (diff) | |
| download | tor-cd23b65a0771ddfb1b40aae126a3abd2bf33dadf.tar tor-cd23b65a0771ddfb1b40aae126a3abd2bf33dadf.tar.gz | |
Backport candidate: count it as a failure if we fetch a valid
network-status but we don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching
it and keep not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
svn:r10153
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt b/doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt index 2bc46c041..f593999d9 100644 --- a/doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt +++ b/doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt @@ -658,9 +658,10 @@ $Id$ 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. |