[tor-relays] About relay size

[teor]

> On 7 Oct 2017, at 23:04, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:49 AM, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And most clients just send a DNS name and a set of IP version flags.
>> 
>> For the rare cases where literal addresses are used, or there are
>> IPv6-only websites over DNS, tor could be smarter.
> 
> Not as rare as vanilla websurfing oriented people think.
> There are lots of tech implementors, pen test companies,
> diagnostics, p2p application developers, torrenters, etc... who
> use nothing but literal IPv4/6 numeric addresses over tor all day long.
> This is why it *sucks* that MAPADDRESS hasn't yet been
> enhanced to support even the simplest of /CIDR mapping semantics.
> *.fqdn DNS is hardly half the picture. See...
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3982

You're right, we don't know the number of literal vs DNS connections.
I added it to the ticket:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23761#comment:3

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