On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 04:31:55AM +1000, teor wrote: > > On 26 Jun 2018, at 02:40, nusenu <nusenu-li...@riseup.net> wrote: > > >> It would also be nice if the relay, itself, performed self-checks of > >> this connectivity and printed a warning log if some failure-threshold is > >> reached (and possibly disabling the IPv6 ORPort). But, in reality, this > >> is a hack > > > > I wouldn't call it a 'hack', I'd consider it a reliability feature. > > Relays already check that their IPv4 ORPorts are working. > > Doing reachability checks for relay IPv6 ORPorts is a bit more > complicated, because we have to teach relays to extend over IPv6 first. > > Here's the master ticket: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24403 > > And if relays use authority IPv6 ORPorts to upload descriptors, they > will get connectivity checks for free: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24777
Good point (and I agree). I'll stopping opening a separate ticket for this. Thanks! _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays