[tor-bugs] #9206 [Tor]: 'Guard' flags only assigned to first nodes started in a private Tor network

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#9206: 'Guard' flags only assigned to first nodes started in a private Tor network
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 Reporter:  karsten                                |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                                 |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                                 |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
Component:  Tor                                    |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-auth tor-relay simulation testing  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                         |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:6 robgjansen]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 nickm]:
 > > What were you thinking for this easy implementation? Something else to
 go in the authorities' "approved-routers" files?
 >
 > I'm not familiar with the approved-routers files. If it means we would
 have something like a list of guards in a special file parsed by the
 authorities, the information in which they would use to assign guard
 flags, than that could work.

 Yup.  It's already where the authorities take lists of nodes for other
 purposes, so it might make sense here too.  The relevant code to load it
 is in dirserv_load_fingerprint_file() in dirserv.c.

 (I prefer this to the torrc approach, since it's already where we handle
 information of this kind)

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