[tor-bugs] #25409 [Core Tor/Tor]: rip out PortForwarding options

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#25409: rip out PortForwarding options
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     Reporter:  arma          |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:
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 A relay operator on tor-relays@ just got snookered into setting
 PortForwarding to 1, probably because he thought it would help him get
 port forwarding working on his relay.

 I think the reality is that almost nobody uses this option, and also we
 don't recommend it.

 Yawning rewrote the crappy dangerous C upnp apps in go:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/tools/tor-fw-helper/README
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/tree/README.md

 But I don't think we've taken any steps to get that go version into any
 user's hands.

 Also, our past use case, where Vidalia would launch Tor and want to let
 ordinary users turn themselves into relays or bridges, is long deprecated.

 Alternatives to "rip it out" would be "get yawning's go stuff packaged
 properly in Debian", or "add yawning's go stuff to the tor tarball and
 build it and ship it too".

 See also #21765 and its great phrase "I wonder how long this has been
 broken for".

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