We'll remove it.

-V

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 at 05:20 Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:09, teor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >"No Self-Referencing Relays"
>
> >I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily
>
> >config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt?
>
> >The unnecessary descriptor space/bw?
>
>
>
> This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were
> ugly.  If the
>
> penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the
> self-connections themselves, we're
>
> both fine with removing it.
>
>
> Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated
> entirely?)
>
> Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration
> variants.
>
> Tim
>
>
> I agree, and this one in particular is important to some operators: by
> allowing a relay to specify itself in the family, one can just have a
> single configuration file for all relays in a family.
>
> Tom
>
> _______________________________________________
> tor-dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
>
_______________________________________________
tor-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

Reply via email to