gratuitous change blocks upgrade to 0.2.2.15-alpha :-(

[Damian Johnson]

Just a heads up that there *has* been torrc validation in arm for quite some
time now. Warnings about this issue (unused entries due to duplicates) have
been given since release 1.2.2 (11/8/09, so bit less than a year now). I
just tested and it has been giving warnings about ExcludeNodes all this time
(root cause is that only entries with LINELIST and LINELIST_S in
src/or/config.c can be duplicates).

If others have ideas for additional validation I can do on user's torrc
files then I'd love to know. Cheers! -Damian

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net>wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:44 -0400 Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> As I understand it, we changed no behavior except printing out a warn
>>> for people who had multiple lines, to tell them that they're expecting
>>> behavior that they're not getting.
>>>
>>
>>    [extremely shocked pause...]
>>        .
>>        .
>>        .
>>    Roger, please tell me that you're joking.  I have *never* had the
>> understanding from reading the documentation in all of the years I've been
>> using tor that only a single line of each type would be used.  How, then,
>> are we to exclude all of the nodes that we find unacceptable for use in
>> our
>> own circuits?
>>    If what you say is actually the case, then it would seem that a problem
>> described on this list on many occasions during the last few years may, in
>> fact, have been due to this horrible limitation.  Several of us have
>> complained
>> on numerous occasions that adding a node to one list or the other and
>> sending
>> SIGHUP to tor (or restarting it) failed to prevent that node from being
>> used
>> in the manner that we had expressly excluded.  If what you say is indeed
>> the
>> case, then it is a truly awful design bug.
>>
>
> Yup, that's the actual behaviour. Good thing we added the warn, otherwise
> it might have gone unnoticed longer.
>
> Sebastian
>
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