[tor-bugs] #4483 [Tor Client]: If k of n authorities are down, k/n bootstrapping clients are delayed for minutes
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#4483: If k of n authorities are down, k/n bootstrapping clients are delayed for
minutes
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Reporter: arma | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component: Tor Client | Version:
Keywords: performance bootstrap dos-resistence | Parent: #2664
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Changes (by mikeperry):
* keywords: performance bootstrap => performance bootstrap dos-
resistence
* parent: => #2664
Comment:
There seem to be two high-level ways to solve this issue:
1. Reduce the timeout for dirport connection establishment to be very
small.
2. Ask k directory requests at once (perhaps until we start getting
answers, then slow down).
Are both good ideas, assuming we could do them right? Can we do the first
easier as the second?
Is some form of the second one already done? I swear I've seen my client
do multiple tunneled dir conns in the Vidalia window and on the control
port... If it is done, why does this bug still cause us problems? Is
bootstrapping somehow different?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4483#comment:3>
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