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Re: [tor-bugs] #6790 [Tor Directory Authority]: Write proposal draft for directory mirrors to accept, aggregate and hand off descriptors to dirauths
#6790: Write proposal draft for directory mirrors to accept, aggregate and hand
off descriptors to dirauths
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Reporter: mikeperry | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component: Tor Directory Authority | Version:
Keywords: MikePerry201210d, proposal-needed | Parent: #2664
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by nickm):
Replying to [comment:14 mikeperry]:
> Can you explain more about 5 being unsolved? I haven't been following
microdesc development. You mean the only way to get microdescriptors right
now is from the dirauths directly?
Not exactly.
I mean that right now, when a directory cache wants to learn a consensus,
a router descriptor, or a microdescriptor, it fetches it from one of the
authorities. It can't just ask another cache: there is no mechanism for
*any* cache to learn this stuff right now other than asking an authority,
so if all the caches asked each other, nobody would find out.
Obviously, this could be improved as a Simple Matter of Software Design.
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