[tor-dev] Why do DirAuths take that long to update a relay's version information?

[nusenu]

teor:
> I've looked at the Tor source code that handles versions. Version
> parsing and voting seem to happen unconditionally.
> 
> I also checked router_differences_are_cosmetic(), and it seems to
> handle platform string changes correctly.

I'll need to read a spec to know what "correctly" exactly means here.

> 
> So maybe the issue is in the descriptor fetching and updating logic?
> How many authorities received the new descriptor?
> Did any of the other fields in the vote change when the new descriptor
> was updated?
> Can we get logs from the relays that are affected by this issue, so we
> can see how many authorities they uploaded to?
> Can we get logs from some authorities so we see how they handled the
> new descriptor?

I'll collect affected relays on the trac ticket.


> It might also help to open a core tor ticket to track this

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24864



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