[tor-bugs] #7986 [Tor]: Lengthen the consensus validity interval

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#7986: Lengthen the consensus validity interval
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 Reporter:  nickm                    |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement              |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major                    |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                      |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client 023-backport  |         Parent:  #2681             
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Comment(by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:10 andrea]:>
 > Hmm - suffice to set up a client, let it get bootstrapped and grab a
 consensus, then use iptables to block all outgoing connections on the
 dirport so it can't download a new consensus?

 There are too many "dirports", alas.  Also, the failure mode involved
 making connections, asking for a consensus, finding out that there wasn't
 one you liked, and then going from there.

 Another idea might be setting up a medium chutney testing network or a
 small shadow network, plus something to generate a little traffic on the
 clients, letting it bootstrap, then killing the authorities, then seeing
 what happens.

 For more ideas, I guess we could alter the code so that it acts like a
 node that's seeing an old consensus, or acts like a node that isn't
 getting a consensus, or some such, somehow.  That could be harder, though,
 and more error prone.

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