[tor-bugs] #4636 [Tor Client]: Add GETINFO interface_address
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#4636: Add GETINFO interface_address
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Reporter: krkhan | Owner: krkhan
Type: enhancement | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component: Tor Client | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment(by Sebastian):
Replying to [comment:3 rransom]:
> Tor appears to use the result of `get_interface_address6` for purposes
other than ‘checking whether our address has changed’, so the
documentation comment may be wrong. Also:
>
> * If the point of this GETINFO item is to let controllers know what Tor
currently thinks its address is, we should expose that piece of
information to the control port. (That would be even harder for
controllers to figure out on their own than what the current
implementation of `get_interface_address6` would return.)
I think rather that this is a bug in how we use the function currently, it
was never intended for something that it later got used for.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4636#comment:4>
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