Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread tordev123
Original Message From: Yawning Angel Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:49:18 + >> It looks like when the consensus is older than 5 days, a directory authority >> is used (and the >> UseEntryGuardsAsDirGuards

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread Yawning Angel
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:45:05 -0400 tordev...@safe-mail.net wrote: > I can't think of a good reason for that behavior. Is there a valid > security issue using an old consensus to fetch the current one from > the entry guard? Your entry guard being rejected as malicious by the DirAuths in the interv

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread tordev123
Original Message From: "l.m" Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:31:25 -0400 > Oh I see, so they happened before. I wasn't sure about that. In that case the > last consensus stored locally must have been many da

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread tordev123
Original Message From: George Kadianakis Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:02:02 +0300 > There are many unlucky people whose guard is not a directory cache, so they > have > to reach out to additional guards to get

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread l.m
Oh I see, so they happened before. I wasn't sure about that. In that case the last consensus stored locally must have been many days old. If that's the case you would bootstrap from dirauths then use your guard for tunneling later directory request. --leeroy __

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread tordev123
Original Message From: "l.m" Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 08:02:22 -0400 > UseEntryGuardsAsDirGuards defaults to 1 in torrc. > > So if you did not change this default you will use entry guards for tun

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread l.m
Hi, UseEntryGuardsAsDirGuards defaults to 1 in torrc. So if you did not change this default you will use entry guards for tunneling directory connections. --leeroy On 8/21/2015 at 7:46 AM, tordev...@safe-mail.net wrote: Original Message From: Mike Perry Subject: [tor-dev] Prop

Re: [tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread George Kadianakis
tordev...@safe-mail.net writes: > Original Message > From: Mike Perry > Subject: [tor-dev] Proposal: Padding for netflow record resolution reduction > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:12:54 -0700 > >> Tor clients currently maintain one TLS connection to their Guard node to >> carry act

[tor-dev] Number of directory connections

2015-08-21 Thread tordev123
Original Message From: Mike Perry Subject: [tor-dev] Proposal: Padding for netflow record resolution reduction Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:12:54 -0700 > Tor clients currently maintain one TLS connection to their Guard node to > carry actual application traffic, and make up to 3 ad