[tor-bugs] #10519 [Core Tor/Tor]: tor uses default IP for dirport instead of the one defined in DirPort

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#10519: tor uses default IP for dirport instead of  the one defined in DirPort
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 Reporter:  torland       |          Owner:
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.18-rc
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                |         Points:
 Reviewer:                |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by arma):

 * severity:   => Normal


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:8 Pascal]:
 > My guess would be Tor IS generating a descriptor and uploading it, but
 the authorities are rejecting it because Tor is not actually running on
 the advertised ORPort.

 Agreed. More specifically, what I would guess is happening here is that
 there was a working, published Tor relay on the other IP address not long
 earlier, and some clients knew about it. So when the new Tor relay came
 up, it started doing self-testing of the address that it was going to
 publish (and all of that self-testing failed), but at the same time some
 working connection came in on the old address, and the self-testing
 mechanism considers that close enough, and published the doomed
 descriptor.

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