Expose information about dir conns to controllers

Currently, we do not expose any information about non-tunneled directory connections to controllers. Should we?

changed milestone to %Tor: unspecified

added component::core tor/tor milestone::Tor: unspecified needs-proposal owner::rransom priority::low severity::normal status::accepted tor-client tor-control type::enhancement labels

You mean from the directory mirror side, I assume? Since from the client side we see the streams as they form and change state.

Replying to arma:

You mean from the directory mirror side, I assume? Since from the client side we see the streams as they form and change state.

No. This ticket is about non-tunneled directory connections, which do not appear as streams.

We don't actually provide useful information about tunneled directory connections, either. We should provide information about all client directory connections to controllers that request them.

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Summary: Expose information about non-tunneled dir conns to controllers to Expose information about dir conns to controllers
Priority: minor to normal
Status: new to accepted
Owner: N/A to rransom
Milestone: Tor: unspecified to Tor: 0.2.3.x-final

Worth doing; could be a "small" feature; probably needs a brief spec; very deferrable.

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Priority: normal to minor

Feature window for 0.2.3.x is closing; deferring this to unspecified.

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Milestone: Tor: 0.2.3.x-final to Tor: unspecified

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Keywords: N/A deleted, tor-client added

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Component: Tor Client to Tor

Most of this information seems to be exposed at this point when descriptors are uploaded/fetched from directories, but a bit of work is still needed on the hidden services side. In particular, it would be nice if we emit something similar to {BAD,ACCEPTED}SERVER_DESCRIPTOR when we upload the descriptor to the HSDir. Similarly we should also reuse or add similar stream purposes like DIR{FETCH,UPLOAD}.

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Cc: N/A to meejah@meejah.ca

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Keywords: tor-client deleted, tor-client tor-control needs-proposal added
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
Severity: N/A to Normal
Reviewer: N/A to N/A

mentioned in issue #8510 (moved)

moved to tpo/core/tor#3459 (closed)