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[or-cvs] add a few items it would be smart todo
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add a few items it would be smart todo
Index: TODO
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@@ -50,21 +50,28 @@ R - track down the patch for cross-compi
- Interim things:
- provide no-cache no-index headers from the dirport?
- o remove down/useless descriptors from v1 directory?
- exitlist should avoid outputting the same IP address twice.
- - if we have no predicted ports, don't fetch router descriptors.
- this way we are more dormant.
Must-have items for 0.1.2.x:
+ - If we fail to connect via an exit enclave, (warn and) try again
+ without demanding that exit node.
+ - If we have no predicted ports, don't fetch router descriptors.
+ This way we are more dormant.
- Directory guards
R - Server usability
+ - look into "uncounting" bytes spent on local connections. so
+ we can bandwidthrate but still have fast downloads.
+ - Write limiting; separate token bucket for write
+ - dir answers include a your-ip-address-is header, so we can
+ break our dependency on dyndns.
N - Better hidden service performance, with possible redesign.
- Asynchronous DNS
- What to use? C-ares? Libdns? AGL's patch?
- Better estimates in the directory of whether servers have good uptime
(high expected time to failure) or good guard qualities (high
fractional uptime).
+ - AKA Track uptime as %-of-time-up, as well as time-since-last-down.
N . memory usage on dir servers. copy less!
o Remember offset and location of each descriptor in the cache/journal
- When sending a big pile of descs to a client, don't shove them all on
@@ -73,7 +80,7 @@ N . memory usage on dir servers. copy le
refcounted. (Only slightly; we'd only need to know whether it's on
the routerlist->routers or routerlist->old_routers, and how many
directory conns are returning it.)
- - Possibly, we could just to keep a list of the descriptor digests for
+ - Possibly, we could just keep a list of the descriptor digests for
the descriptors we still want to send. We might end up truncating
some replies by returning fewer descriptors than were requested (if
somebody requests a desc that we throw away before we deliver it),
@@ -88,6 +95,8 @@ N . memory usage on dir servers. copy le
N - oprofile including kernel time on multiple platforms
Items for 0.1.2:
+ - We need a separate list of "hidserv authorities" if we want to
+ retire moria1 from the main list.
- Improve controller
- change circuit status events to give more details, like purpose,
whether they're internal, when they become dirty, when they become
@@ -114,7 +123,7 @@ Items for 0.1.2:
without using SOCKS.
- Make everything work with hidden services
- - Clients should refer to avoid exit nodes for non-exit path positions.
+ - Clients should prefer to avoid exit nodes for non-exit path positions.
(bug 200)
- Make "setconf" and "hup" behavior cleaner for LINELIST config
options (e.g. Log). Bug 238.
@@ -125,10 +134,7 @@ Items for 0.1.2:
- Design
- Implement
- - Have a "ReallyFast" status flag that means it.
-
-R - look into "uncounting" bytes spent on local connections. so
- we can bandwidthrate but still have fast downloads.
+ - Have a "Faster" status flag that means it. Fast2, Fast4, Fast8?
- When we connect to a Tor server, it sends back a cell listing
the IP it believes it is using. Use this to block dvorak's attack.
@@ -158,10 +164,10 @@ Topics to think about during 0.1.2.x dev
- Figure out hidden services.
Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits.
- - Streamline how we define a guard node as 'up'. document it
- somewhere.
+ - The bw_accounting file should get merged into the state file.
+ - Streamline how we define a guard node as 'up'. document it somewhere.
- Better installers and build processes.
- - Commit edmanm's win32 makefil eto tor cvs contrib, or write a new one.
+ - Commit edmanm's win32 makefile to tor cvs contrib, or write a new one.
- Can we cross-compile?
R - Christian Grothoff's attack of infinite-length circuit.
the solution is to have a separate 'extend-data' cell type
@@ -177,7 +183,8 @@ N - Display the reasons in 'destroy' and
- We need a getrlimit equivalent on Windows so we can reserve some
file descriptors for saving files, etc. Otherwise we'll trigger
asserts when we're out of file descriptors and crash.
- - the tor client can do the "automatic proxy config url" thing?
+ X the tor client can do the "automatic proxy config url" thing?
+ (no, let's leave this for applications like torbutton)
- Automatically determine what ports are reachable and start using
those, if circuits aren't working and it's a pattern we recognize
("port 443 worked once and port 9001 keeps not working").
@@ -220,7 +227,7 @@ N - Vet all pending installer patches
- Clients should estimate their skew as median of skew from servers
over last N seconds.
- Security
- - Alices avoid duplicate class C nodes.
+ - Alices avoid duplicate /24 servers.
- Analyze how bad the partitioning is or isn't.
. Update the hidden service stuff for the new dir approach.
@@ -245,7 +252,6 @@ N - Vet all pending installer patches
- Make router_is_general_exit() a bit smarter once we're sure what it's for.
- rewrite how libevent does select() on win32 so it's not so very slow.
- - Write limiting; separate token bucket for write
- Audit everything to make sure rend and intro points are just as likely to
be us as not.
- Do something to prevent spurious EXTEND cells from making middleman
@@ -261,7 +267,6 @@ Future version:
- DoS protection: TLS puzzles, public key ops, bandwidth exhaustion.
- Specify?
- tor-resolve script should use socks5 to get better error messages.
- - Track uptime as %-of-time-up, as well as time-since-last-down.
- hidserv offerers shouldn't need to define a SocksPort
* figure out what breaks for this, and do it.
- Relax clique assumptions.
@@ -289,3 +294,4 @@ Blue-sky:
streams, at least according to the protocol. But we handle all that
we've seen in the wild.
(Pending a user who needs this)
+