On 29 March 2016 at 02:29, Sebastian Hahn <hahn.seb@web.de> wrote:
I've been wondering about the private_nets const in src/or/policies. It was added in a96c0affcb4cda1a2e0d83d123993d10efc6e396 but Nick doesn't remember why, and I'm hoping someone has an idea (maybe teor, who I've CCed here, who documented this in a later commit?). If nobody knows why we do this I think we should remove it as likely incorrect.
0000::/8 is Reserved by the IETF, it is (a superset of) the deprecated space for "IPv4 Compatible IPv6 Addresses". The addresses are not to be reassigned for any other purposes. Authoritative source: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space/ipv6-address-space.xhtml I'm not necessarily sure what private networks are all used for in Tor, but maybe this explains it and makes sense? -tom