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| author | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-02-11 13:38:17 +1000 |
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| committer | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-02-11 13:38:17 +1000 |
| commit | e759c0ec4e6433e6d8cb010dda72b92b7477ae5e (patch) | |
| tree | 0051efc2941ab74c833d87b440cf2cef428734d3 /proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt | |
| parent | 8cc8bff1063126bfc5bc9604115230acc7942895 (diff) | |
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Prop 312: Clarify OS hostname API behaviour
Part of 33049.
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diff --git a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt index 659e5a1..98c86c1 100644 --- a/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt +++ b/proposals/312-relay-auto-ipv6-addr.txt @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ Ticket: #33073 and IPv6 addresses for: * the Address torrc option (see section 3.2.1), and * the local hostname. - However, OS APIs typically only return a single hostname. + However, OS APIs typically only return a single hostname. (Rather than a + separate hostname for IPv4 and IPv6.) For security reasons, directory authorities only use addresses that are explicitly configured in their torrc. Since hostname lookups may use DNS, |