[tor-bugs] #18037 [Tor]: Should the user be allowed to specify FQDNs for HS TARGETs?

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#18037: Should the user be allowed to specify FQDNs for HS TARGETs?
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 Reporter:  yawning     |          Owner:
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Low         |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.???
Component:  Tor         |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
 Severity:  Minor       |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-hs dns  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by alecmuffett):

 I use all three forms of HSDir specification in torrc at different times,
 including for work.

 1) port number - because lazy

 2) IP address - because marginally less lazy and willing to type in
 127.0.0.1 for localhost in reasonable certainty that it won't change

 3) FQDN - because the loadbalancer VIP changes IP address from datacentre
 to datacentre and the FQDN is a safe way to record it

 Given the recent controversy about Apache's special treatment of requests
 coming in from "localhost", I actually wonder if there ought to be a
 _fourth_ syntax, vaguely IPv6 inspired, along the lines of:

 HiddenServicePort interface:eth0 80

 ...which queries the named network interface and asks what IP address it
 is currently bound to, directing requests to _that_ rather than
 "localhost"

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