On 29 October 2015 at 11:25, Nick Mathewson <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two possible ways a new connection to a directory > authority can be established, directly by a TCP connection to the > DirPort, or tunneled inside a Tor circuit and initiated with a > begindir cell. The client can originate the former as direct > connections or from a Tor exit, and the latter either as fully > anonymized circuits or one-hop links to the dirauth's ORPort.
Relays fetch the consensus from a V2Dir. Thus there is no risk that an attacker can prevent an exit from fetching a consensus by (trying to) DOS the DirAuths through it. I believe that's correct, just wanted to say it out loud and let everyone confirm I guess. -tom _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
