[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2818: Grid Status displays wrong Address of connected storage servers

[Tahoe-LAFS]

#2818: Grid Status displays wrong Address of connected storage servers
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     Reporter:  dawuud   |      Owner:  warner
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:  1.12.0
    Component:  unknown  |    Version:  1.11.0
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  tor
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by warner):

 Hm. Let's see.. this is just for client->server connections, and since the
 client is using unique Tubs (which aren't listening) for those
 connections, the connected address will always be that of the far end.
 Previously, by using a single shared (listening) Tub for all connections,
 sometimes the "client->server" connection would actually be running over a
 TCP connection that was initiated by the server (when both sides are
 running servers). At that time, it was useful to know whether your TCP
 connection was outbound or inbound. But since now they're always outbound,
 I guess we don't need to display the difference anymore.

 There's two pieces of information that would be useful on this display.
 The first is where the server is advertising themselves (the connection
 hint). The second would be something about how we actually managed to
 connect to them.

 It might be nice if this showed the fact that you're using Tor to connect
 to them. That's going to need some new Foolscap support though.. maybe it
 could remember which connection-handler was successful, and stash it on
 the Broker somewhere. Then we could add a new API
 (rref.getConnectionInfo?) which reported the name of the connection-
 handler and the hint which it used, maybe some other descriptive text.

 I guess the only problem with displaying the connection hints is that
 they're slightly longer (`tcp:HOST:PORT` instead of `HOST:PORT`). Not a
 big deal.

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