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[tor-bugs] #28807 [Core Tor/Tor]: Use of Directory Authorities in usual circuits may need an option to be disabled
#28807: Use of Directory Authorities in usual circuits may need an option to be
disabled
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Reporter: wagon | Owner: (none)
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Component: Core
| Tor/Tor
Version: Tor: 0.3.4.9 | Severity: Normal
Keywords: tor-client, tor-dirauth, tor- | Actual Points:
bwauth, tor-doc, tor-spec |
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Currently, it seems that Tor clients don't use DA nodes for construction
of circuits because all DA's bandwidth is set to 20, which is a very low
value. To move unneeded client traffic out of DA nodes completely, we
could have some `torrc` option on client's side (which disables
construction of such circuits) and on DA's side (which block client's
requests to use the DA as a node in its circuits). Additionally, use of DA
nodes in clients circuits may be governed by some consensus values
published by DA nodes.
In general, in testing Tor network with a small number of nodes, enabling
this option may be undesirable, but in the main Tor network it may help DA
nodes to decrease their load. Also, this explicit solution may be more
clean than the current probabilistic approach which relies on a small
bandwidth value set for DA nodes.
This task was originally discussed in
[[http://ea5faa5po25cf7fb.onion/projects/tor/ticket/28676#comment:15|another
comment]] with teor.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28807>
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