[tor-bugs] #10229 [Tor]: feature req: Runtime reconfigure Tor daemon to listen on additional addresses

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#10229: feature req: Runtime reconfigure Tor daemon to listen on additional
addresses
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 Reporter:  ConcernedUser3Ir5  |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor                |        Version:
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 It might be useful for the Tor daemon to expose a way to add and remove
 "ORPort" records at run-time, without restarting the daemon.  For example,
 consider a Tor host on a multi-homed NATted network, where each public
 address is usually stable but cold change from time to time, and not
 necessarily when the host is rebooted.  Or, consider a Teredo address for
 the host, or some other IPv6 tunnel, which is randomly assigned at boot
 and may require an additional script to start/stop.  It would be possible
 to have the start script for the Tor daemon rewrite /etc/torrc/ with such
 additional addresses, but that mixes "dynamic" configuration with
 "static".  Or, those additional addresses could have DNS names, but
 dynamic DNS is harder to set up for such additional addresses.

 This could be an optional additional (TCP) control socket, or a control
 option built into the protocol itself (probably a bad idea, potential
 security hole if not properly implemented), or a Unix-domain control
 socket that only accepts connections from "root" or other allowed daemons.

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