Improve comments in fallback update script

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teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) 2016-04-29 11:43:55 +10:00
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#!/usr/bin/python
# Usage: scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py > src/or/fallback_dirs.inc
#
# This script should be run from a stable, reliable network connection,
# with no other network activity (and not over tor).
# If this is not possible, please disable:
# PERFORM_IPV4_DIRPORT_CHECKS and PERFORM_IPV6_DIRPORT_CHECKS
#
# Needs dateutil (and potentially other python packages)
# Needs stem available in your PYTHONPATH, or just ln -s ../stem/stem .
# Optionally uses ipaddress (python 3 builtin) or py2-ipaddress (package)
# for netblock analysis, in PYTHONPATH, or just
@ -1061,7 +1068,7 @@ class Candidate(object):
downloader = DescriptorDownloader()
start = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
# some directory mirrors respond to requests in ways that hang python
# sockets, which is why we long this line here
# sockets, which is why we log this line here
logging.info('Initiating consensus download from %s (%s:%d).', nickname,
dirip, dirport)
# there appears to be about 1 second of overhead when comparing stem's