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Re: [tor-bugs] #21493 [Core Tor/Tor]: When reachable addresses change, mark connections using those addresses

#21493: When reachable addresses change, mark connections using those addresses
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 Reporter:  teor          |          Owner:
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.3.0.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  ipv6          |  Actual Points:  0
Parent ID:                |         Points:  1
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by cypherpunks):

 Replying to [comment:8 teor]:
 > Replying to [comment:7 cypherpunks]:
 > > In any codebase, subtle changes, like this, being practically
 undocumented, and evidently hidden from both users and developers, is a
 source of confusion and a hindrance to future debugging.
 >
 > There are a lot of subtle changes when a subsystem is rewritten.
 > That's just how it works.
 >
 > This change was implemented in a recent alpha:
 > "to better support unreliable networks and restrictive sets of entry
 nodes"
 >
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=ac04fcd2e758c2258cbde8c8f31586695cb5d666#n12
 That entry makes no reference to this change.

 >
 > And it was fully documented in proposal 271:
 > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/271-another-
 guard-selection.txt#n648
 > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/271-another-
 guard-selection.txt#n114
 That is no explicit documentation, and was not enough for a user or system
 integrator, or a developer, to decode and guess that the change had taken
 place.

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