On 5 Jul 2016, at 07:30, Green Dream greendream848@gmail.com wrote:
See: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-January/040074.html
My takeaway is that there's little point to setting an IPv6 DirPort at this point. Clients will rarely connect to it, and relays won't connect to it at all. Furthermore, "In 0.2.8, clients assume that the IPv6 DirPort is the same as the IPv4 DirPort" already. If that's still true, might as well leave the v4 port advertised, and if a v6 client comes along it will try the (non-advertised) v6 port anyway.
It seems like all of this is in flux though. Perhaps someone can provide an update on the current progress.
In 0.2.8.3-aplha, "clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an encrypted begindir connection for directory requests". Encrypted beginner connections are made over the ORPort. This means that in 0.2.8 clients no longer use any DirPort, and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 clients and bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort.
In 0.2.7 and before, clients and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort. IPv6 bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort.
Tim
Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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