<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>On 26 Jun 2018, at 02:40, nusenu <<a href="mailto:nusenu-lists@riseup.net">nusenu-lists@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div preoffsettop="299"><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="325"><span>It would also be nice if the relay, itself, performed self-checks of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="351"><span>this connectivity and printed a warning log if some failure-threshold is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="377"><span>reached (and possibly disabling the IPv6 ORPort). But, in reality, this</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" preoffsettop="403"><span>is a hack </span><br></blockquote></div><span></span><br><span>I wouldn't call it a 'hack', I'd consider it a reliability feature.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Relays already check that their IPv4 ORPorts are working.</div><div><br></div><div>Doing reachability checks for relay IPv6 ORPorts is a bit more</div><div>complicated, because we have to teach relays to extend over IPv6 first.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the master ticket:</div><div><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24403">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24403</a></div><div><br></div><div>And if relays use authority IPv6 ORPorts to upload descriptors, they</div><div>will get connectivity checks for free:</div><div><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24777#comment:7">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24777</a></div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>