Re: [tor-dev] Tor 0.2.8 and Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-03-26 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 26 Mar 2016, at 21:36, intrigeri wrote: > > Hi, > > Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote (21 Mar 2016 18:16:46 GMT) : >> If this feature does cause problems, or if your app needs to bootstrap only >> from the >> authorities (Tails time syncing? [2]), the fallback directory mirrors >> feature ca

Re: [tor-dev] Tor 0.2.8 and Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-03-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote (21 Mar 2016 18:16:46 GMT) : > If this feature does cause problems, or if your app needs to bootstrap only > from the > authorities (Tails time syncing? [2]), the fallback directory mirrors feature > can be > disabled using the tor config option "UseDefaultFallb

Re: [tor-dev] Tor 0.2.8 and Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-03-22 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 22 Mar 2016, at 23:30, Nathan Freitas wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, at 02:16 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: >> Just a heads' up that tor 0.2.8 includes a fallback directory mirrors >> feature, where tor clients bootstrap from a set of hard-coded long-lived >> directory mirrors. This

Re: [tor-dev] Tor 0.2.8 and Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-03-22 Thread Nathan Freitas
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, at 02:16 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote: > Just a heads' up that tor 0.2.8 includes a fallback directory mirrors > feature, where tor clients bootstrap from a set of hard-coded long-lived > directory mirrors. This makes bootstrap more reliable, and makes it > harder to bl

[tor-dev] Tor 0.2.8 and Fallback Directory Mirrors

2016-03-21 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
Dear Tor App Developers, Just a heads' up that tor 0.2.8 includes a fallback directory mirrors feature, where tor clients bootstrap from a set of hard-coded long-lived directory mirrors. This makes bootstrap more reliable, and makes it harder to block tor. The wiki has an entry with more detail