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Re: [tor-bugs] #5848 [Tor Relay]: Dir-spec extrainfo attributes vague about publisher
#5848: Dir-spec extrainfo attributes vague about publisher
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Reporter: atagar | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: trivial | Milestone:
Component: Tor Relay | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by karsten):
I'm not saying that exit stats published by a non-exit would be very
meaningful. But Tor wouldn't decide that it's a non-exit, so it would
publish stats with all zeros (if the relay is configured to publish exit
stats). What's an exit anyway? A relay with the Exit flag? A relay with
an accept line to at least 1 IP and port?
The same goes for entry and dirreq stats. Clients may use any relay as
their first hop, not just ones with the Guard flag. Think about cases
where a relay has just gained or lost the Guard flag and where the client
and the relay disagree about the relay being a guard. Similarly, dirreq
stats are not bound to the relay having a non-zero Dir port. Maybe, in
the future, we won't require a non-zero Dir port for serving directory
information anymore, because that's tunneled via the OR port anyway.
Again, there wouldn't be much in those stats, but they would still be
there (if the relay is configured to publish them). But adding more
requirements on these statistics would very likely overcomplicate things.
Nothing bad will happen if relays report statistics with all zeros.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5848#comment:5>
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