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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt')
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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. |