[tor-relays] Are zealous connections to directory port common?

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Fri Mar 14 18:45:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:23:50PM -0400, Tora Tora Tora wrote:
>  Why would any IP address need
> more than one (or several simultaneous) connection is beyond me.

See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9969 for one case.

I wonder if these are clients running Tor versions from back before we
did directory fetches tunnelled over the ORPort -- clients from that long
ago would launch quite a few requests to the DirPort of various relays,
and since we disabled the v2 directory status documents, maybe there's
a bug where they keep asking if they don't have anything they like.

--Roger



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