commit e759c0ec4e6433e6d8cb010dda72b92b7477ae5e Author: teor teor@torproject.org Date: Tue Feb 11 13:38:17 2020 +1000
Prop 312: Clarify OS hostname API behaviour
Part of 33049. --- proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt index 659e5a1..98c86c1 100644 --- a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt +++ b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ Ticket: #33073 and IPv6 addresses for: * the Address torrc option (see section 3.2.1), and * the local hostname. - However, OS APIs typically only return a single hostname. + However, OS APIs typically only return a single hostname. (Rather than a + separate hostname for IPv4 and IPv6.)
For security reasons, directory authorities only use addresses that are explicitly configured in their torrc. Since hostname lookups may use DNS,