[tor-bugs] #23347 [Core Tor/Tor]: Switching from direct connection to a pluggable transport is not working anymore with tor on master

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#23347: Switching from direct connection to a pluggable transport is not working
anymore with tor on master
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 Reporter:  gk            |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.2.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
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Comment (by teor):

 #17750 made download schedules use the specified initial delay, rather
 than 0.
 The two schedules with a non-zero delay are the fallback authority
 schedule and the bridge schedule.

 So my guess is that the bridge schedule's initial delay of 1 hour is
 wrong, and tor needs to download a bridge descriptor to bootstrap. It is
 possible that this bug was introduced in Tor 0.3.0 with the guard
 algorithm changes.

 I'll work out how to reproduce this on the command-line, and submit a
 schedule patch.
 This will probably involve re-thinking the entire schedule. (Because if we
 really need the bridge descriptor, we shouldn't wait 2 hours if we fail
 the first time.)

 I have closed #17750, because we really shouldn't backport it.

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