Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> writes: > The log messages "Your Guard" make produce confusion, Looking at the > latest code base I see the string "Your Guard" recurring. > > Does this string actually refer to a Guard the user is responsible for > operating and maintaining? Or does it refer to the guard the Tor client > is connecting to on its first hop in the circuit? If it is not a guard > operated by the person running the Tor client, then perhaps the string > ought to read "The Guard" instead of "Your Guard". > > $ head -n 1 ChangeLog > Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16 > > $ grep -n -r 'Your Guard' ./src/feature/client/circpathbias.c > 1335: "Your Guard %s is failing to carry an extremely > large " > 1359: "Your Guard %s is failing to carry an extremely > large " > 1383: "Your Guard %s is failing to carry more streams on > its " > 1440: "Your Guard %s is failing an extremely large " > 1464: "Your Guard %s is failing an extremely large " > 1488: "Your Guard %s is failing a very large " > 1513: "Your Guard %s is failing more circuits than " >
Agreed that this is confusing (as can also be seen by this email thread). I opened a trac ticket where people can brainstorm and hopefully submit patches for this issue: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28895#ticket Cheers! -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
