On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Konstantinos Asimakis <[email protected]> wrote: > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A84D7DF9D58E0FAFF8CCC06A6A49DD96BD1DFC13 > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/12404BB1BB4F09CA65B76D77F347BC0D79CB7BA3 > > How is this possible? I though that if you try to take the name of an > unnamed node, your node switched to Unnamed or something like that > automatically. > > Does the named flag prohibit other nodes from taking that name, or is it > merely enabling clients to refer to you by name unambiguously? >
The latter. Any number of routers can claim the same name; at most one can be Named. If you try to refer to a router by name, then you should get the Named one. If there is only one router with a given name, then you should get that one regardless of whether it's named, so long as it isn't Unnamed. If you're curious about the details, have a look at section 6.2 of dir-spec.txt (which should probably be better written; I found it pretty confusing when I looked just now), and at node_get_by_nickname() in src/or/nodelist.c in the Tor source. best wishes, -- Nick _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
