[tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-05-22 Thread l.m
Hi, a couple questions about fallback directories. On 4/17/15, Peter Palfrader wrote: > We want them to have been around and using their current key, address, > and port for a while now (120 days), and have been running, a guard, and > a v2 directory mirror for most of that time. In the script (

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-28 Thread teor
> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:56:01 +0200 > From: Peter Palfrader > > Hi, > > so, Tor has included a feature to fetch the initial consensus from nodes > other than the authorities for a while now. We just haven't shipped a > list of alternate locations for clients to go to yet. > > Reasons wh

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-18 Thread teor
> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:51:35 +0200 > From: Peter Palfrader > >>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >>> >>> On 4/17/15, Ian Goldberg wrote: >>> Remember that the purpose is to help first-time clients, who have never >>> used the Tor network before, fetch their very first consensus

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > On 4/17/15, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > Remember that the purpose is to help first-time clients, who have never > > used the Tor network before, fetch their very first consensus. To do > > that, they'll need addresses to contact bundled into the binary a

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 4/17/15, Ian Goldberg wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >> >> > > I think this list would be created at release time and ship with the >> > > tor binaries/source. >> > >> > That gives a build person a lot of

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > > > I think this list would be created at release time and ship with the > > > tor binaries/source. > > > > That gives a build person a lot of power - should we expect each > > distr

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > I think this list would be created at release time and ship with the > > tor binaries/source. > > That gives a build person a lot of power - should we expect each > distro to do it correctly? I trust that you will do a fine job but I'm > not sure ab

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 4/17/15, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > >> On 4/17/15, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> > so, Tor has included a feature to fetch the initial consensus from >> > nodes >> > other than the authorities for a while now. We just haven't shipped a >> > list of alte

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > On 4/17/15, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > so, Tor has included a feature to fetch the initial consensus from nodes > > other than the authorities for a while now. We just haven't shipped a > > list of alternate locations for clients to go to yet. > > >

Re: [tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi Peter, On 4/17/15, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hi, > > so, Tor has included a feature to fetch the initial consensus from nodes > other than the authorities for a while now. We just haven't shipped a > list of alternate locations for clients to go to yet. > > Reasons why we might want to ship to

[tor-dev] shipping with fallbackdir sources

2015-04-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi, so, Tor has included a feature to fetch the initial consensus from nodes other than the authorities for a while now. We just haven't shipped a list of alternate locations for clients to go to yet. Reasons why we might want to ship tor with a list of additional places where clients can find t