they're all down). Currently, all authorities are fallbacks by
default, and there are no other default fallbacks, but that will
change. This option will allow us to give clients a longer list
- of servers to try to get a consensus from when first connecting
- to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the directory
- authorities.
+ of servers to try to get a consensus from when first connecting to
+ the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the directory
+ authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured directory
+ sources for bootstrapping". Closes bug 572.
o Removed features:
- Drop the old FallbackNetworkstatus option: we never got it working
- well enough to use it.
+ well enough to use it. Closes bug 572.