[tor-bugs] #4455 [Tor Client]: Add configuration option PreferIPv6?

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Fri Nov 18 12:50:55 UTC 2011


#4455: Add configuration option PreferIPv6?
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    Reporter:  ln5         |       Owner:        
        Type:  defect      |      Status:  closed
    Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:        
   Component:  Tor Client  |     Version:        
  Resolution:  wontfix     |    Keywords:        
      Parent:              |      Points:        
Actualpoints:              |  
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Changes (by ln5):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 > The name is clearly bad.  This was not meant to guide the client to
 chose one Bridge line over another but rather to chose one of two IP
 addresses in a descriptor, filtered indeed through "do I have this address
 in a Bridge line?".

 Wait.  The client should probably just ignore adresses found in a
 descriptor that isn't in the configuration.  If the user wants to use
 only the IPv6 address of a given bridge, she types in the IPv6 address
 in the configuration and the IPv4 address in the bridge descriptor
 will be ignored.  (OK, this is what people like Nick and Roger have
 been telling me when I was too occupied with understanding other
 things to grasp the meaning of what they said.  Sorry.)

 This should remove the need for a configuration option indicating
 preferences.  For clients chosing bridges, that is.  Later on, we
 might want something like this for clients and routers chosing one of
 several addresses in descriptors they got from the consensus.

 Let's create another ticket for that when that time comes.  Closing
 this one.

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