Made a couple small additions to the 'xxx-getinfo-option-expansion' proposal for getting Tor's state and the keys used in the mappings. Thanks to Roger for the suggestion (he also <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1680">opened a ticket</a> to track this). Cheers! -Damian<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Nick Mathewson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nickm@freehaven.net">nickm@freehaven.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Paul Syverson<br>
<<a href="mailto:syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil">syverson@itd.nrl.navy.mil</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:59:07PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Damian Johnson <<a href="mailto:atagar1@gmail.com">atagar1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hi Nick. Thanks for the comments!<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> * IN_TYPE/OUT_TYPE talk about the type of an inbound/outbound<br>
>> >> "connection." Do you mean circuits, or connections on the circuits?<br>
>> >> Either way I'm confused. For example, a control connection is never<br>
>> >> attached to a circuit at all.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Yea, that isn't really appropriate and was making the spec messier than it<br>
>> > needed to be. Replaced with a single TYPE parameter to indicate the<br>
>> > placement in the circuit (guard/bridge, relay, exit, or one-hop in case<br>
>> > they're allowing them).<br>
>><br>
>> Hm. But we don't necessarily know this. Our "are we client-facing"<br>
>> tests are approximate, not certain, and the only way to tell whether<br>
>> we're intermediate or exiting is to wait and see if we're told to<br>
>> exit. In fact, the leaky-pipe topology means that we're potentially<br>
>> intermediate _and_ exiting on a single circuit.<br>
><br>
> Wah. I know I'm well out of the development loop, but is leaky-pipe<br>
> topology ever currently used and if so for what?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Well, I said "potentially". ;) The servers support it, but I don't<br>
believe we use it. If we did, it would probably be for fetching<br>
directory info from a guard that happens also to be a cache, or<br>
something like that.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Nick<br>
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