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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
- published network-status document.
+ published 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.
Clients discard all network-status documents over 24 hours old.