[tor-bugs] #28676 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor versions of Tor nodes should be accessible through ControlPort

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#28676: Tor versions of Tor nodes should be accessible through ControlPort
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 Reporter:  wagon         |          Owner:  arma
     Type:  enhancement   |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:  Tor: 0.3.4.9
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #24110        |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by wagon):

 Replying to [comment:11 teor]:
 > (Authorities don't carry much client traffic at all, but they do serve a
 lot of directory documents.)
 Now all authorities have `Bandwidth=20 Unmeasured=1`. I guess this is the
 reason why they are almost never selected for normal circuits. This could
 be done cleaner--as tor options which (1) disable client traffic (for
 usual circuits) at authority and (2) disable use of authority on clients
 when they create circuits. Requests of consensus, I suppose, just ignore
 `Bandwidth` option.
 > `tor ControlPort 192.0.2.1:9090` works for me.
 > That's probably another bug, or we might have decided to discourage
 people from using IP addresses.
 Yes, it should be either documented with proper warnings or disabled
 completely. Moreover, it has another bug: `ControlPort` can be specified
 more than once in `torrc`, and Tor will listen on all these addresses, but
 this behavior is not documented in `man torrc`. All options which can be
 specified more than once are marked with a sentence like (example of
 `SocksPort`):
 > This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
 addresses/ports.
 Should we create a separate ticket about `ControlPort`?

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