Re: [Tails-dev] Arbitrary DNS queries... and Tor 0.2.2.x

07/26/2011 11:47 PM, intrigeri:
> I'm usually pretty reluctant to install into Tails software that is
> officially marked as experimental by upstream, but in the present
> case, I happen to have been running the beta, then the RC for a while,
> and have had no problem with it. Well, actually I've found it to be
> running a bit more reliably than the current (0.2.1.x) stable branch.
> Any differing or concurring experience report from others?

My experience is the same as yours. From my reading of the changelogs it
seems that even the alpha:s are mostly plagued by critical bugs
regarding relays or directory authorities/mirrors, very rarely clients.

> Proposal: install Tor 0.2.2.x RC in the devel branch, meant to prepare
> Tails 0.8, and fix that annoying DNS configuration in there (I
> prepared last part in commit 849e922 of
> feature/support_arbitrary_dns_queries Git branch, built a Tails image
> from it, and tested it with Tor 0.2.2 RC. Seems to work nicely.)
>
> What do you think?

While I'm not against it in principle, I wonder if this specific feature
is important enough to break our policy of keeping Tor at the latest
stable in every release. To me this move seems a bit arbitrary; I'd
expect most future RCs to contain features of at least as much
importance, so if we'd be consistent we'd basically always ship an RC
when available. Or am I missing something? Is the current inability to
query non-A records breaking something for the average Tails user?

Cheers!