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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-09-22 00:43:55 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2006-09-22 00:43:55 +0000
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r8894@Kushana: nickm | 2006-09-21 18:30:42 -0400
Specify and implement SOCKS5 interface for reverse hostname lookup. svn:r8451
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-rw-r--r--doc/TODO7
-rw-r--r--doc/socks-extensions.txt6
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index f5c8f0dc82..d82da2c3fb 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ d - Special-case localhost?
o Connect to resolve cells, server-side.
o Add element to routerinfo to note routers that aren't using eventdns,
so we can avoid sending them reverse DNS etc.
- - Add client-side interface
+ . Add client-side interface
+ o SOCKS interface: specify
+ o SOCKS interface: implement
+ - Cache answers client-side
+ o Add to Tor-resolve.py
+ - Add to tor-resolve
- Performance improvements
diff --git a/doc/socks-extensions.txt b/doc/socks-extensions.txt
index 7022af14fc..8040a8b03f 100644
--- a/doc/socks-extensions.txt
+++ b/doc/socks-extensions.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ Tor's extensions to the SOCKS protocol
(We support RESOLVE in SOCKS4 too, even though it is unnecessary.)
+ For SOCKS5 only, we support reverse resolution with a new command value,
+ "RESOLVE_PTR". In response to a "RESOLVE_PTR" SOCKS5 command with an IPv4
+ address as its target, Tor attempts to find the canonical hostname for that
+ IPv4 record, and returns it in the "server bound address" portion of the
+ reply. (This was not supported before Tor 0.1.2.2-alpha)
+
3. HTTP-resistance
Tor checks the first byte of each SOCKS request to see whether it looks