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r8776@totoro: nickm | 2006-09-29 00:50:46 -0400

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Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick a hostname; any
 router can call itself Unnamed; directory servers will never allocate Unnamed
 to any particular router; clients won't believe that any router is the
 canonical Unnamed.
 


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(XXXX The last-bound thing above isn't implemented)
Not every router needs a nickname. When a router doesn't configure a
nickname, it publishes with the default nickname "Unnamed". Authorities
SHOULD NOT ever mark a router with this nickname as Named; client software
SHOULD NOT ever use a router in response to a user request for a router
called "Unnamed".
6.2. Software versions
An implementation of Tor SHOULD warn when it has fetched (or has