Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 211: Internal Mapaddress for Tor Configuration Testing

2012-10-15 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Mike Perry wrote: > [...] > >> What does that protect against? My first thought is that you're > >> trying to prevent the case where a malicious local DNS server maps > >> "selftest.torproject.org" to some IP addr

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 211: Internal Mapaddress for Tor Configuration Testing

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Mike Perry wrote: [...] >> What does that protect against? My first thought is that you're >> trying to prevent the case where a malicious local DNS server maps >> "selftest.torproject.org" to some IP address in their control, and >> then just runs a server at tha

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 211: Internal Mapaddress for Tor Configuration Testing

2012-10-15 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@alum.mit.edu): > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > > Design Overview > > > > The system will have three parts: an internal hard-coded IP address > > mapping (127.84.111.114:80), a hard-coded mapaddress to a DNS name > > (selftest.torproject.o

Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 211: Internal Mapaddress for Tor Configuration Testing

2012-10-15 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Mike Perry wrote: > Also at: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/mikeperry/torspec.git/blob/mapaddress-check:/proposals/xxx-mapaddress-tor-status.txt > > --- > > Title: Internal Mapaddress for Tor Configu