[tor-relays] is it possible to relay using ipv6?

root tor at afo-tm.org
Sun Nov 27 19:41:51 UTC 2016


I can't find any ISP in the Consensus that doesn't have IPv6 and more 
than 0,1% Consensus Weight, also one Relay at a FTTH ISP that offer 200+ 
MBit/s symmetric and only public IPv6 would gain more Consensus Weight 
than all Relays we would have lost due to that change together.


On 27.11.2016 19:06, Tristan wrote:
>
> If that happens, many people won't be able to run a middle relay at 
> home. Nobody in my neighborhood has an IPV6 address, and none of the 
> WiFi spots in town have one either.
>
> IPV6 just isn't used wisely enough. If any change happens, it should 
> be *can* have just IPV6, and *can* have IPV4.
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2016 11:59 AM, "root" <tor at afo-tm.org 
> <mailto:tor at afo-tm.org>> wrote:
>
>     It is end 2016 we should change from must have IPv4 to must have
>     IPv6 and can have IPv4. All this new fancy ISPs that have FTTH and
>     give you 500 MBit/s symmetric internet access have Carrier grade
>     NAT because they were late to the Party and don't get IPv4 from
>     the LIRs.
>     You can't run there a relay because of the stupid you need a
>     public accessible IPv4 address shit. So i see there a big gain in
>     making that change, because then the guys with the big home pipes
>     can run relays too. On the other hand datacenters that have only
>     IPv4 are very uncommon, so there would be no big loss of relays.
>     Clients that are IPv4 only can use Dual-Stack relays so they won't
>     have a problem.
>
>
>     On 26.11.2016 11:26, teor wrote:
>
>             On 26 Nov. 2016, at 21:14, Lluís <2015.msl at gmail.com
>             <mailto:2015.msl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>             If I didn't understand right, a relay can use IPv6 but it
>             will **not**
>             bootstrap unless it is assigned an IPv4 address.
>
>             Does that summarize the discussion ?
>
>         Yes.
>
>         A relay *must* have an IPv4 address to publish a descriptor.
>         A relay can also publish an IPv6 address it its descriptor.
>
>         Tim
>
>             Cheers
>             Lluís
>
>
>             teor:
>
>                     On 23 Nov. 2016, at 02:54, Ralph Seichter
>                     <tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de
>                     <mailto:tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de>> wrote:
>
>                     On 22.11.16 03:33, teor wrote:
>
>                             ...
>                             ClientPreferIPv6DirPort 1
>
>                         This option was introduced and deprecated in
>                         the 0.2.8 alpha series,
>                         it has no effect.
>
>                     That's unexpected.
>                     https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
>                     <https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en>
>                     still lists this option. I went through this
>                     manual page for anything
>                     IPv6-related I could find.
>
>                 Here is the ticket to deprecate that option:
>                 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19704
>                 <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19704>
>
>                 It's just waiting for someone to write the code and
>                 change the manual.
>
>                 T
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