#11397: Building circuits blocks new connections -----------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: evandro | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.??? Component: Tor | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Actual Points: | Parent ID: Points: | -----------------------------+-------------------------- Changes (by nickm):
* milestone: Tor: 0.2.6.x-final => Tor: 0.2.??? Comment: {{{ 12:11 < athena> slightly worried about a change that makes us potentially use an old circuit forever if the firewall starts blocking *all* new connections 12:11 < athena> *maybe* it'd be okay if we introduced soft and hard timeouts for circuits 12:11 <@nickm> with single-guard, you should pretty much always have a good connection though. 12:12 < athena> i.e., older than the soft timeout means new connection triggers building a new circuit and uses the old if it takes too long 12:12 < athena> hard blocks new connections until a fresh circuit is available 12:12 < athena> hmmm 12:12 < athena> (we still might have multiple guards if the user changes the config setting manually, though, IIUC) 12:13 <@nickm> that's true, but I'm not sure how much time we should spend optimizing for people behind fascist firewalls who also use non-default guard settings 12:13 <@nickm> also, we are supposed to be building circuits preemptively, and using them preemptively. So for most people, this shouldn't be a problem. 12:13 < athena> also, with single guard, when we build a new circuit, do we use the existing channel to the guard to do it, or open a whole new channel? 12:13 < athena> the former, i think 12:13 <@nickm> we use the existing channel 12:14 <@nickm> I say that I should copy-and-paste most of this discussion, and put the ticket in ??? 12:14 < athena> yeah }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11397#comment:2> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs