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 reproduce
the problem now on a normal network, and I just went through the Tor code
looking for the error message I saw, but I couldn't find it.
But I figured I'd ask here to see if anyone was familiar with shortcuts Tor can
take in its connection process that safely save time and bandwidth on slow
connections if the only thing I intend to use Tor for is connecting to onion
addresses.
Are there any steps in bootstrapping that can be skipped if I only care about
making and receiving onion address connections?
Holmes
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