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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-09-29 04:51:28 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-09-29 04:51:28 +0000
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r8776@totoro: nickm | 2006-09-29 00:50:46 -0400
Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick a hostname; any router can call itself Unnamed; directory servers will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router; clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed. svn:r8529
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(XXXX The last-bound thing above isn't implemented)
+ Not every router needs a nickname. When a router doesn't configure a
+ nickname, it publishes with the default nickname "Unnamed". Authorities
+ SHOULD NOT ever mark a router with this nickname as Named; client software
+ SHOULD NOT ever use a router in response to a user request for a router
+ called "Unnamed".
+
6.2. Software versions
An implementation of Tor SHOULD warn when it has fetched (or has