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Commit 1125a487 authored by David Goulet's avatar David Goulet Committed by Nick Mathewson
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Reuse intro points that failed but are still valid


There is a case where if the introduction circuit fails but the node is
still in the consensus, we clean up the intro point and choose an other one.
This commit fixes that by trying to reuse the existing intro point with a
maximum value of retry.

A retry_nodes list is added to rend_services_introduce() and when we remove
an invalid intro points that fits the use case mentionned before, we add the
node to the retry list instead of removing it. Then, we retry on them before
creating new ones.

This means that the requirement to remove an intro point changes from "if no
intro circuit" to "if no intro circuit then if no node OR we've reached our
maximum circuit creation count".

For now, the maximum retries is set to 3 which it completely arbitrary. It
should also at some point be tied to the work done on detecting if our
network is down or not.

Fixes #8239

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Goulet <dgoulet@ev0ke.net>
parent 7c7bb8b9
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