[tor-bugs] #6550 [Tor Relay]: Clarifications for extrainfo desc transport lines

Sun Aug 5 03:05:00 UTC 2012

#6550: Clarifications for extrainfo desc transport lines
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 Reporter:  atagar     |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect     |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor      |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Relay  |        Version:     
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 Couple clarifications from discussions with asn...

 1. The 'transportname' in descriptor lines are unique

 As discussed on ticket #6257, George is fine with the 'transportname'
 being unique per a descriptor. This is useful to me because I can now
 model this as a 'transportname => attributes' hash which will be more user
 friendly.

 2. The transport name can appear on non-bridges

 Though this attribute only makes sense for bridges, it can appear on the
 extrainfo descriptors for non-bridges as well. Actually, we already have
 one in the wild...

 extra-info toorvoid 0B37323298FF98CD86ED404895BB27B7426E8AE1
 published 2012-08-04 12:19:13
 transport obfs2 83.212.96.201:33570

 Will upload a patch in a sec...

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