[tor-bugs] #2559 [Tor Relay]: connection buckets get not decremented in a private tor network

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#2559: connection buckets get not decremented in a private tor network
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  Reporter:  cagara     |              Owner:     
      Type:  defect     |             Status:  new
  Priority:  normal     |          Milestone:     
 Component:  Tor Relay  |            Version:     
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Comment(by nickm):

 Note:

 The rationale for exempting private networks from connection buckets from
 rate limiting is that people ''usually'' want to use rate limits to limit
 how much  they use over a slow or expensive upstream link.

 But of course, as you note, this is only "usually".  Under some
 circumstances (like a testing network) you want to limit internal
 addresses too.

 So the right solution IMO is to have a configuration option to alter the
 behavior of connection_is_rate_limited().  This could either be a simple
 flag, or another address policy.

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