Hi, > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:55:36 +0100 Tom Hek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> i'm changing my public IP number ten times per day and to avoid > >> confusion, > > *Ten times per day?* Please tell us again why it is you're bothering > to run a tor server if you also feel you have to hide its existence.
it's because a moving target is harder to hit; it's more safe to change the IP number often. Another point is that states like germany do like IP numbers so much that they do data retention and therefore i give them what they want - many IP numbers ;-) > >> i'm stopping my TOR server before and starting after the number > >> change. > >> But after the start TOR is very slow. > >> Is there a better way to tell the TOR server that the public IP has > >> changed? > > > >Tor will detect it and republish his server descriptor with the new IP > >in it. > > > That is true iff the Address line in torrc contains a host+domain name, > not an IP address, and the name server data base in question has been updated > to reflect the changed address. So i should use a DynDNS host+domain name? Regrets