[tor-bugs] #1534 [Tor Relay]: Private IP Address

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#1534: Private IP Address
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  Reporter:  funkstar   |       Owner:                     
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  reopened           
  Priority:  minor      |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  Tor Relay  |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.13-alpha
Resolution:             |    Keywords:                     
    Parent:             |  
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Comment(by arma):

 The goal is to quickly recognize when your ISP has given you a new IP
 address, so we can get a new descriptor published to point clients to your
 new location.

 So it checks whether your address has changed whenever it's doing other
 stuff, like fetching or publishing directory information.

 In this case I believe it's happening because it's considering whether it
 needs to fetch any more directory information, and to do that it needs to
 know what schedule it should use for fetching it (how aggressively), and
 to know that it needs to know whether you already know your IP address (if
 you don't you should make a directory request even if you don't need
 anything, so you can learn your address), and to know whether you already
 know your IP address it double-checks some things that are cheap to check
 on your side.

 On the one hand, we could try to make it do those checks less often. On
 the other hand, we actually want to notice even faster than we do already
 when your IP address changes.

 Really, info-level logs that confuse you are not bugs.

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