I have an unrelated question... where could I go with similar minds so that I may ask or would it be appropriate and acceptable to do that here , thanks .
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, 6:21 PM James <jbrown...@yandex.com> wrote: > Good day. > > Is there any chance that torpy (https://github.com/torpyorg/torpy) was > triggered this issue > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/33018 ? > > Some wary facts: > - Torpy using old fashion consensus (not mircodesc) > - When consensus not present in cache (first time usage) it downloads > consensus from random directory authorities only. > - Before August 2020 it was using plain HTTP requests to DirAuths. Now > it creates "CREATE_FAST" circuits to DirAuths (is that right way by the > way?) > > From other side: > - Torpy store consensus on disk (so whenever client restart it must not > download full consensus again) > - It will try download consensus after time which sets by valid_time > field from consensus which more than 1 hour (so it's not so often) > - Torpy try get consensus by "diff" feature (so it's minimize traffic) > > Still may be some of this features not working well in some conditions. > Which could cause a lot of consensus downloads in Jan 2020... Or may be > you know more info about this situation? > > > > Do you have some recommendations for tor client implementation? > Can you explain in several paragraphs what behavior of original tor > client is? As far as I understand when first time original tor starts it > tries download consensus from fallback dirs not from DA? Is this key point? > > There is one more issue > https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40239 > which I'm not understand correctly. Let's imagine it's first run of tor > client and that time coincidentally coincided with DA voting. That means > client will not be able to download consensus? That is strange decision. > Or do you mean clients must download consensus from fallback dirs which > never in "voting" process? > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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