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Re: [tor-bugs] #28676 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor versions of Tor nodes should be accessible through ControlPort
#28676: Tor versions of Tor nodes should be accessible through ControlPort
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Reporter: wagon | Owner: arma
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Tor: 0.3.4.9
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by wagon):
> I'd like to build an abstraction layer over all available directory
documents (like #25999, but inside tor).
I have another idea. We have some trade-off between internal Tor's
complexity and Tor's network performance. We need some balance which will
make Tor support and development effective and convenient.
Microdescriptors were added to Tor code long time ago (10 years?), when
internet in general and Tor network in particular were 10-20 times slower
than now (you can check metrics graphs). Amount of Tor nodes increased
only 3 times during this period. Now we could remove this redundancy by
moving to single type descriptors which will be not as small as
microdescriptors but will be complete. We need de-duplication.
Then, on top of these simplified descriptors you could make some
abstraction layer for `ControlPort`. As concerns its current state, there
are also other issues, e.g. with
[[https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28300#comment:4|status/version/num-{concurring,versioning}]]
and with
[[https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28300#comment:6|"Option/*"]]
values (I'm not sure I have to create separate tickets about that).
P.S. I wonder why `ControlPort` can only be binded to loopback interface.
Is it a bug or feature? I assume that in some environments, where Tor is
controlled by a remote machine, it would be convenient to bind to another
IP than 127.0.0.1 (firewall redirection can be used to overcome this
difficulty, but direct binding is simpler to setup).
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28676#comment:7>
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