Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 205: Remove global client-side DNS caching

2012-12-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:14:23PM +, Julian Yon wrote: >> (3) Don't bother trying to ascertain the full exit policy, but rather >> maintain a simple table of exit/IP/port combinations that have been >> rejected and consult it when bui

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 205: Remove global client-side DNS caching

2012-12-18 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@freehaven.net): > >> [tl;dr: We should make client-side DNS cacheing off by default.] >> >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> > Filename: 205-local-dnscache.txt >> > Title: Remove global

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 205: Remove global client-side DNS caching

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@freehaven.net): > [tl;dr: We should make client-side DNS cacheing off by default.] > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > Filename: 205-local-dnscache.txt > > Title: Remove global client-side DNS caching > > Author: Nick Mathewson > > For

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 205: Remove global client-side DNS caching

2012-12-18 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 06:14:23PM +, Julian Yon wrote: > (3) Don't bother trying to ascertain the full exit policy, but rather > maintain a simple table of exit/IP/port combinations that have been > rejected and consult it when building/using circuits. This requires no > protocol changes (win!

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal: Tuning the Parameters for the Path Bias Defense

2012-12-18 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org): > Thus spake Mike Perry (mikepe...@torproject.org): > > > Also exists at > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/mikeperry/torspec.git/blob/path-bias-tuning:/proposals/xxx-path-bias-tuning.txt > > I've updated this proposal to address some questio

[tor-dev] Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool

2012-12-18 Thread Philipp Winter
Hi there, Deliverable 6 for sponsor Z says: > 6. Start a tool that a censored developer can run to discover why their Tor is > failing to connect: brainstorm a list of "things to check", and sort them by > how useful they'd be to check / how hard they'd be to build. (#7137) The deliverable is du