[tor-bugs] #25685 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor relays publish a new descriptor but authorities drop it because they think it's only cosmetically different, and then the relay waits 18 more hours to publish, thus falling out of the consensus

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#25685: Tor relays publish a new descriptor but authorities drop it because they
think it's only cosmetically different, and then the relay waits 18 more
hours to publish, thus falling out of the consensus
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 Reporter:  arma                  |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor          |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  034-roadmap-proposed  |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                        |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):

 One way to resolve this issue is to make dirauths just believe relays when
 they republish their descriptors.

 We might want to rate-limit republishing to N descriptors per hour, but
 I'm not sure what that gets us, because we've already received and parsed
 the descriptor by the time we reject it.

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