[tor-dev] Updating Proposal 299 (Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count)

[teor]

> On 7 Mar 2019, at 09:07, Neel Chauhan <neel at neelc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi teor,
> 
> On 2019-03-05 21:12, teor wrote:
>> Sure. We usually do torspec changes using GitHub pull requests.
>> Can you open a pull request on https://github.com/torproject/torspec ?
>> Then link to the pull request from #27491 or in an email reply.
> 
> The GitHub PR is here: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/61

Thanks, I opened a ticket to review and merge it here:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29687

It should get reviewed within a week or two.

>> Here's one way we could do that:
>> Add a new option ClientAutoIPv6ORPortStrategy, which takes some flags.
>> When no flags are set (the default), we use the original
>> ClientAutoIPv6ORPort.
>> Then we add a flag for this proposal:
>>  - TrackFailures
>> Then other tickets can use other flags:
>>  - CheckLocalAddresses for
>>     #27492 Try IPv4 or IPv6 more often based on public or private IP
>> addresses
>>  - CheckConsensus for
>>    #27647 When randomly choosing IPv4 or IPv6, set IPv6 probability
>> based on IPv6 weight
>> What do you think?
>> Would you like to make these changes to this proposal?
> 
> These additions sound good.
> 
> I have added the "TrackFailures" flag to my GitHub PR and also mentioned other flags will come in the future.

I like what you did here: I think having one option with extra flags is
better than two options.

T


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