[tor-relays] which DirPort should be advertised ?

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Tue Jul 5 09:23:06 UTC 2016


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On 07/05/2016 04:01 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
> In 0.2.8.3-aplha, "clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an encrypted begindir connection for directory requests".
> Encrypted beginner connections are made over the ORPort.
> This means that in 0.2.8 clients no longer use any DirPort, and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort.
> IPv6 clients and bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort.
> 
> In 0.2.7 and before, clients and relays only use the IPv4 DirPort.
> IPv6 bridge clients use the IPv6 ORPort.

Understood - so in the long run a DirPort is only used to serve the DirPortFrontPage

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Toralf
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