https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A84D7DF9D58E0FAFF8CCC06A6A49DD96BD1DFC... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/12404BB1BB4F09CA65B76D77F347BC0D79CB7B...
How is this possible? I though that if you try to take the name of an unnamed node, your node switched to Unnamed or something like that automatically.
Does the named flag prohibit other nodes from taking that name, or is it merely enabling clients to refer to you by name unambiguously?
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Konstantinos Asimakis inshame@gmail.com wrote:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A84D7DF9D58E0FAFF8CCC06A6A49DD96BD1DFC... https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/12404BB1BB4F09CA65B76D77F347BC0D79CB7B...
How is this possible? I though that if you try to take the name of an unnamed node, your node switched to Unnamed or something like that automatically.
Does the named flag prohibit other nodes from taking that name, or is it merely enabling clients to refer to you by name unambiguously?
The latter. Any number of routers can claim the same name; at most one can be Named. If you try to refer to a router by name, then you should get the Named one. If there is only one router with a given name, then you should get that one regardless of whether it's named, so long as it isn't Unnamed.
If you're curious about the details, have a look at section 6.2 of dir-spec.txt (which should probably be better written; I found it pretty confusing when I looked just now), and at node_get_by_nickname() in src/or/nodelist.c in the Tor source.
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