[tor-dev] lifespan of deprecated "ORListenAddress" configuration option

[Nick Mathewson]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Frédéric CORNU <fcornu at wardsback.org> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> The Tor Manual [1], as of today, says that ORListenAddress option is
> deprecated and that same behaviour can be achieved by specifying the
> listening address within the ORPort option.
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> Although using ORPort to specify listening address works as expected
> whit tor, it causes arm to crash, see ticket #9269 [2].
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> You guys know how much relay operators rely on arm to check on their
> babies, and having tor operate on a specific IP address may not be such
> an uncommon practice.
>
> I don't know how both tor and arm projects coordinate their efforts, if
> they do, so the big question is :
>
> Can users expect support for ORListenAddress at least untill
> ticket #9269 is closed ?

I'm not planning to remove ORListenAddress any time soon.  Maybe in
0.2.7 or 0.2.8, I guess.

-- 
Nick