See bug 2850 for rationale: it appears that on some busy exits, the OS
decides that every single port is now unusable because they have been
all used too recently.
Previously we ensured that it would get called periodically by doing
it from inside the code that added microdescriptors. That won't work
though: it would interfere with our code that tried to read microdescs
from disk initially. Instead, we should consider rebuilding the cache
periodically, and on startup.
Previously on 0.2.2, we'd never clean the cache. Now that we can
clean it, we want to add a condition to rebuild it: that should happen
whenever we have dropped enough microdescriptors that we could save a
lot of space.
No changes file, since 0.2.3 doesn't need one and 0.2.2 already has some
changes files for the backport of the microdesc_clean_cahce() function.
n_supported[i] has a random value prior to initialization, so a node
that doesn't have routerinfo available can have a random priority.
Patch contributed by wanoskarnet from #tor. Thanks!
Otherwise I need to figure out what it does and how to make it do it
every time I want to use it. It did that unixy thing where running
it with no arguments printed nothing and returned.
Clients and relays haven't used them since early 0.2.0.x. The only
remaining use by authorities learning about new relays ahead of scedule;
see proposal 147 for what we intend to do about that.
We're leaving in an option (FetchV2Networkstatus) to manually fetch v2
networkstatuses, because apparently dnsel and maybe bwauth want them.
This fixes bug 3022.
Previously it would erroneously return true if ListenAddr was set for
a client port, even if that port itself was 0. This would give false
positives, which were not previously harmful... but which were about
to become.
A v0 HS authority stores v0 HS descriptors in the same descriptor
cache that its HS client functionality uses. Thus, if the HS
authority operator clears its client HS descriptor cache, ALL v0
HS descriptors will be lost. That would be bad.
