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r11625@Kushana: nickm | 2006-12-17 03:47:12 -0500
TODO edits. Hm, 0.1.2.x-rc feels quite close. svn:r9144
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@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ x - When we've been idle a long time, we stop fetching server
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x - If the client's clock is too far in the past, it will drop (or
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just not try to get) descriptors, so it'll never build circuits.
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N - Bug 326: make eventdns thrash less.
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N - Test guard unreachable logic; make sure that we actually attempt to
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connect to guards that we think are unreachable from time to time.
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Make sure that we don't freak out when the network is down.
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@ -33,6 +32,8 @@ N - Stop recommending exits as guards?
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P - Figure out why dll's compiled in mingw don't work right in WinXP.
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P - Figure out why openssl 0.9.8d "make test" fails at sha256t test.
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R - Reconstruct ChangeLog; put rolled-up info in ReleaseNotes or something.
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Items for 0.1.2.x:
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- Now that we're avoiding exits when picking non-exit positions,
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we need to consider how to pick nodes for internal circuits. If
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@ -83,9 +84,14 @@ N - Hunt for places that change networkstatus info that I might have
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d - A way to adjust router flags from the controller
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d - a way to pick entries based wholly on extend_info equivalent;
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a way to export extend_info equivalent.
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R - option to dl directory info via tor
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- Make an option like __AllDirActionsPrivate that falls back to
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non-Tor DL when not enough info present.
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R . option to dl directory info via tor
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o Make an option like __AllDirActionsPrivate that falls back to
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non-Tor DL when not enough info present. (TunnelDirCons).
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- Set default to 0 before release candidate.
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- Think harder about whether TunnelDirConns should be on
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by default.
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- Handle case where we have no descriptors and so don't know who can
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handle BEGIN_DIR.
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D Count TLS bandwidth more accurately
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N - DNS improvements
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@ -101,11 +107,11 @@ N - DNS improvements
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D Make API closer to getaddrinfo()
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o Teach evdns about ipv6.
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- Make evdns use windows strerror equivalents.
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- Teach evdns to be able to listen for requests to be processed.
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o Teach evdns to be able to listen for requests to be processed.
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o Design interface.
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o Rename stuff; current names suck.
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o Design backend.
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. Implement
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o Implement
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o Listen for questions
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o Parse questions, tell user code
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o Let user code tell us the answer
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@ -116,14 +122,14 @@ N - DNS improvements
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o Be efficient about labels.
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o Fix the interface for flags and flag handling.
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o Generate truncated responses correctly.
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- Comment everything.
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o Comment everything.
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o Clean up XXXX items
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. Test
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- Add some kind of general question/response API so libevent can be
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o Test
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D Add some kind of general question/response API so libevent can be
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flexible here.
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d - Add option to use /etc/hosts?
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d - Special-case localhost?
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- Verify that it works on windows
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X Add option to use /etc/hosts?
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X Special-case localhost?
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- Verify that it works well on windows
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. Make reverse DNS work.
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. Add client-side interface
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o SOCKS interface: specify
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@ -136,12 +142,20 @@ d - Special-case localhost?
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server, and bad software that tries to do DNS lookups on whole URLs.)
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- address_is_invalid_destination() is the right thing to call here
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(and feel free to make that function smarter)
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d - Eventdns improvements
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- Have a way to query for AAAA and A records simultaneously.
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- Improve request API: At the very least, add the ability to construct
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a more-or-less arbitrary request and get a response.
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- (Can we suppress cnames? Should we?)
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- Bug 364: notice when all the DNS requests we get back (including a few
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well-known sites) are all going to the same place.
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- Bug 363: Warn and die if we can't find a nameserver and we're running a
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server; don't fall back to 127.0.0.1.
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- Bug 326: Give fewer error messages from nameservers.
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- Only warn when _all_ nameservers are down; otherwise info.
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- Increase timeout; what's industry standard?
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- Alternatively, raise timeout when nameserver dies but comes back
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quickly?
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- Don't believe that our sole nameserver is dead? or, not until more
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failures than it would take to think one of several nameservers was
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dead?
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- Possibly, don't warn until second retry of a nameserver gets no
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answer?
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- Performance improvements
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@ -278,6 +292,12 @@ R - "bandwidth classes", for incoming vs initiated-here conns,
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. Figure out v0 compatibility.
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- Implement
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- Eventdns improvements
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- Have a way to query for AAAA and A records simultaneously.
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- Improve request API: At the very least, add the ability to construct
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a more-or-less arbitrary request and get a response.
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- (Can we suppress cnames? Should we?)
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Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits:
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D don't do dns hijacking tests if we're reject *:* exit policy?
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(deferred until 0.1.1.x is less common)
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@ -301,14 +321,19 @@ Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits:
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we append a number (or increment the number) and try again? This
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way people who read their logs can fix it as before, but people
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who don't read their logs will still offer Tor servers.
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? - Fall back to unnamed; warn user; send controller event.
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- Fall back to unnamed; warn user; send controller event. ("When we
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notice a 'Rejected: There is already a named server with this nickname'
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message... or maybe instead when we see in the networkstatuses that
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somebody else is Named with the name we want: warn the user, send a
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STATUS_SERVER message, and fall back to unnamed.")
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! - Tor should bind its ports before dropping privs, so users don't
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have to do the ipchains dance.
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- Rate limit exit connections to a given destination -- this helps
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us play nice with websites when Tor users want to crawl them; it
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also introduces DoS opportunities.
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o The bw_accounting file should get merged into the state file.
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? - Streamline how we pick entry nodes.
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- Streamline how we pick entry nodes: Make choose_random_entry() have
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less magic and less control logic.
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o Better installers and build processes.
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X Commit edmanm's win32 makefile to tor contrib, or write a new one.
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(Abandoned for now; mingw is now our official windows build
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