Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-17 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi nusenu (and tor-dev@), On 2021-09-17 16:02, nusenu wrote: it would be great if you could open a MR for the proposal so we can always see the latest version and changes there. (Over time it became unclear what comments have already been addressed in the text an which didn't.) Done: https://g

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-17 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi David, On 2021-09-14 12:00, David Goulet wrote: On 14 Sep (11:31:02), Neel Chauhan wrote: 3. Implementation details The MiddleOnly flag can be assigned to relays whose IP addresses are configured at the directory authority level, similar to how the BadExit flag currently works. In

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-14 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi Roger, On 2021-09-12 20:48, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:17:37PM -0700, Neel Chauhan wrote: If a relay has the MiddleOnly flag, we do not allow it to be used for the following purposes: * Entry Guard While we're trying to be exhaustive here, "Direc

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi nusenu, On 2021-09-12 14:47, nusenu wrote: thanks for these pointers. In case "ExcludeGuardNodes" option is accepted and merged, the documentation should explicitly point out the differences between LimitToMiddleOnlyNodes NodeX vs. ExcludeGuardNodes NodeX + ExcludeExitNodes NodeX thanks, n

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi, On 2021-09-12 12:31, nusenu wrote: Neel Chauhan: Also ensure this functionality is available to tor clients via a torrc option like "ExcludeExitNodes" can be used by tor clients as well. The torrc option for clients could be named "LimitToMiddleOnlyNodes" or similar

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi nusenu, On 2021-09-10 16:05, nusenu wrote: Thank you for working on this, I was hoping for such a flag for a long time, great to see that it is happening now. No problem! The flag should minimize the ability of the relay to do harm. This means such relays should _not_ be used by tor clien

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
#x27;s GPON splitter node. And no, I'm not signing up for Comcast since Tor+WFH would saturate the DOCSIS upstream assuming I won't go over the cap (which I will).Filename: 334-middle-only-flag.txt Title: A dirauth flag to mark Relays as Middle-only Author: Neel Chauhan Created: 2021

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
date also completes the missing paragraph reported by Ian, that seemed to miss me in the original proposal. -Neel ChauhanFilename: 334-middle-only-flag.txt Title: A dirauth flag to mark Relays as Middle-only Author: Neel Chauhan Created: 2021-09-07 Status: Open 1. Introduction The Health Team

[tor-dev] Proposal 334: A flag to mark Relays as middle-only

2021-09-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi, As asked in the torspec MR [1] (42) for ticket [2] (40448), I propose a MiddleOnly dirauth flag for relays. The proposal, #334, is attached to this email, and is titled "A dirauth flag to mark Relays as Middle-only". Please comment and review it. Best, Neel Chauhan ===

[tor-dev] Has Core Tor Development Slowed? Or Are We Moving To Rust/arti?

2021-01-08 Thread Neel Chauhan
however). Is there any other reason? Best, Neel Chauhan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Should we remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option?

2020-01-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi tor-dev@, Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32905 GitHub PR: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/1652 Considering that people had issues with the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option, like when IPv6 was tried on IPv4-only connections in [1] and [2], I think we should just re

Re: [tor-dev] Updates to Prop306: A Tor Implementation of IPv6 Happy Eyeballs

2019-12-26 Thread Neel Chauhan
the relay monitoring section. FYI the PR is here: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/98 However, I'm worried I removed something you may feel is necessary. -Neel On 2019-12-16 19:09, teor wrote: Hi Neel, On 17 Dec 2019, at 09:37, Neel Chauhan wrote: Hi tor-dev@ mailing list,

[tor-dev] Updates to Prop306: A Tor Implementation of IPv6 Happy Eyeballs

2019-12-16 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi tor-dev@ mailing list, Sorry for the many-months delay in updating Prop306. I have updated Prop306, which is the IPv6 Happy Eyeballs proposal. The GitHub PR is here: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/98 The Trac ticket is here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29801

Re: [tor-dev] New Proposal 306: A Tor Implementation of IPv6 Happy Eyeballs

2019-07-29 Thread Neel Chauhan
Just a reminder that this proposal (Prop306) needs to be reviewed: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/87 -Neel === https://www.neelc.org/ On 2019-07-21 10:30, n...@neelc.org wrote: Hi, I have split up the sections. The GitHub PR is here: https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/8

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 306: Onion Balance Support for Onion Service v3

2019-07-25 Thread Neel Chauhan
On 2019-07-25 12:35, Nick Mathewson wrote: Please use 307 for this; I think 306 is in use. That's me, the Prop306 guy! The title should be: "Proposal 307: Onion Balance Support for Onion Service v3" (Note the 307) -Neel ___ tor-dev mailing list to

Re: [tor-dev] Updating Proposal 299 (Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count)

2019-03-12 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi teor, Thanks, I opened a ticket to review and merge it here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29687 It should get reviewed within a week or two. First off, thank you for doing this! As of now, it seems to have been merged. I have added the "TrackFailures" flag to my GitH

Re: [tor-dev] Updating Proposal 299 (Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count)

2019-03-06 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi teor, On 2019-03-05 21:12, teor wrote: Sure. We usually do torspec changes using GitHub pull requests. Can you open a pull request on https://github.com/torproject/torspec ? Then link to the pull request from #27491 or in an email reply. The GitHub PR is here: https://github.com/torproject/

[tor-dev] Updating Proposal 299 (Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count)

2019-03-04 Thread Neel Chauhan
he updated (and attached) proposal? Also, if any of you have opinions on this proposal, please share them with me. -Neel === https://www.neelc.org/Filename: 299-ip-failure-count.txt Title: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count Author: Neel Chauhan Created: 25-Jan-2019 St

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 299: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count

2019-02-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
eeded? Thank You, Neel === https://www.neelc.org/ February 5, 2019 11:40 PM, "teor" wrote: > Hi Neel, > > Thanks for your initial draft code, and this proposal. > > On February 6, 2019 12:26:40 AM UTC, Neel Chauhan wrote: > >> Hi tor-dev@ mailing list,

[tor-dev] Proposal 299: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count

2019-02-05 Thread Neel Chauhan
/torspec.git/tree/proposals/299-ip-failure-count.txt Now that my proposal "Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count" is Open, I would really appreciate your opinions on this. Is it good, bad? Could it have any improvements? Best, Neel Chauhan === https://www

Re: [tor-dev] New Proposal: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count

2019-01-29 Thread Neel Chauhan
Hi Nick, Thank you so much! Sorry if my proposal says "Draft". I believe my proposal is complete. Would it be possible to mark Prop299 as "Open"? Best, Neel === https://www.neelc.org/ January 28, 2019 5:32 AM, "Nick Mathewson" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 201

Re: [tor-dev] New Proposal: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count

2019-01-26 Thread Neel Chauhan
, 2019 12:31 AM, "teor" wrote: > On January 25, 2019 9:53:51 PM UTC, Neel Chauhan wrote: > >> Hi tor-dev@ mailing list, >> >> I have been working on Bug #27491 >> (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27491) and have been >> asked to wri

[tor-dev] New Proposal: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count

2019-01-25 Thread Neel Chauhan
problems with it?). Thank You, Neel Chahan Filename: xxx-ip-failure-count.txt Title: Preferring IPv4 or IPv6 based on IP Version Failure Count Author: Neel Chauhan Created: 25-Jan-2019 Status: Draft Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27491 1. Introduction As IPv4 address

[tor-dev] Reviewer for Bug #27491: Prefer IPv4 or IPv6 based on the number of failures

2019-01-17 Thread Neel Chauhan
but I would really appreciate a reviewer. Thank You, Neel Chauhan === https://www.neelc.org/ ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Merging Tor Bug #27490

2018-11-28 Thread Neel Chauhan
code ready for #27491 and #27492 but am awaiting the merger of #27490 before I submit them? I am also currently working on Bug #27647. Thank You, Neel Chauhan ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin