[tor-bugs] #17765 [Tor]: If tor gets different addresses via different methods, it flips between them

Mon Dec 7 00:30:55 UTC 2015

#17765: If tor gets different addresses via different methods, it flips between
them
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     Reporter:  teor    |      Owner:
         Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium  |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.8.x-final
    Component:  Tor     |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal  |   Keywords:
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 A user on tor-relays found that his tor instance was unreachable because
 it was switching between different IP addresses on the VPS.

 It would find one IP address via gethostname, and another on the interface
 on the server.

 It would be great if we could:
 * ask the user to use the Address torrc option in the error message
 * choose methods that we think are more likely to be correct, and believe
 them

 Source:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-
 relays/2015-December/008303.html

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