Issues Tracker for Tor related problems.

[KnowWhoami]

Here are the set of issues , we currently face while using TOR and must be solved before the release of v0.1.0.

• Mac users are unable to run on tor.

  • When spawning a child process to run tor, the libtor dependency is used, which is not compatible with macOS, causing the following issues:
    • Tests must be written in clearnet mode, as running in tor mode would fail on macOS in GitHub Actions.
    • Mac users cannot use tor.
  • Solution: Find a compatible alternative to libtor for macOS.

• Spawn a new child process to run tor
  Currently, we use the mitosis process for tor, which is not good because:

  • It is more expensive compared to using a thread.
  • The data types of Mitosis's (mitosis::JoinHandle) and Thread's (std::thread::JoinHandle) are different, so we can't push the mitosis_handle into the ThreadPool.
  • This could cause problems when addressing issues like Graceful Shutdown Missing for makerd and DNS Servers on Termination & Errors #322.

• CLI app runs on clearnet even when -n tor is passed, with clearnet as the default. #327

• Connectivity failure when maker , taker & dns runs on different network #321

[mojoX911]

@KnowWhoami as we have concluded most of the problems by making Tor the default, moving this out of v01.0 milestones. Later on we can come back to it as explore potential fixes.

[mojoX911]

This is now outdated with current state of the project.