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Remove port ranges from prop186
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nmathewson committed Jan 17, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ New descriptor syntax:
IPV6ADDR = an ipv6 address, surrounded by square brackets.
IPV4ADDR = an ipv4 address, represented as a dotted quad.
PORTLIST = PORTSPEC | PORTSPEC "," PORTLIST
PORTSPEC = PORT | PORT "-" PORT
PORTSPEC = PORT
PORT = a number between 1 and 65535 inclusive.

[This is the regular format for specifying sets of addresses and
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That is, clients tunnel their directory requests inside OR
connections, and don't generally connect to DirPorts at all.

Why not have address ranges?
Why not have address and port ranges?

Earlier drafts of this proposal suggested that clients should
provide not only ranges of ports, but also ranges of addresses,
specified with bitmasks. That's a neat idea for circumvention,
but if we did that, you wouldn't want to advertise publicly that
you have an entire address range.
Earlier drafts of this proposal suggested that servers should provide
ranges of addresses, specified with bitmasks. That's a neat idea for
circumvention, but if we did that, you wouldn't want to advertise
publicly that you have an entire address range.

Port ranges are out because I don't think they would actually get used
much, and they add a fair bit of complexity.

Coding impact:

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