[tor-bugs] #8239 [Tor]: Hidden services should try harder to reuse their old intro points

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#8239: Hidden services should try harder to reuse their old intro points
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 Reporter:  arma         |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
Component:  Tor          |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-hs       |         Parent:                    
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [ticket:8239 arma]:
 > If our intro circuits close, but it was because our network failed and
 not because the intro points failed, we should reestablish new intro
 circuits to the *old* intro points.

 This would make a hidden service's intro-point relays appear to ‘be
 responsible for’ the hidden service.  The fact that reopening an intro
 point with the same ‘address’ as a previous one is possible is a bug in
 Tor's protocol.

 Also, merely reusing introduction points would not make HSes on flaky
 connections work significantly less badly.  Their clients would still have
 to rebuild their rendezvous circuits.


 The right way to help Tor clients with flaky connections maintain long-
 term circuits and streams is to add a circuit-resumption feature to the
 Tor protocol.

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