Re: [tor-dev] Shortcuts to data-heavy parts of the bootstrapping process

2022-09-07 Thread Holmes Wilson
Thanks, this is super helpful. And yes, it was that error message. The "such as paths to onion services" was a tease, because I was like "oh yes, that's exactly what I need! I should ask someone about this!" :) Here's to a glorious future full of scalable directory designs that are both practi

Re: [tor-dev] Shortcuts to data-heavy parts of the bootstrapping process

2022-09-01 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 12:10:35AM +, Holmes Wilson wrote: > At some point I got an error message that indicated that it was giving up but > that I had enough information to connect to onion addresses. I can't > reproduce the problem now on a normal network, and I just went through the > Tor

[tor-dev] Shortcuts to data-heavy parts of the bootstrapping process

2022-09-01 Thread Holmes Wilson
I was just at an event with a slow (but reliable) network and Tor was not able to connect; the "Loading relay descriptors" step just took too long. At some point I got an error message that indicated that it was giving up but that I had enough information to connect to onion addresses. I can't r