On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:31:02PM -0800, F. Fox wrote: > Roger Dingledine wrote: > (snip) > | Even if you hup your Tor rather than restarting it, you're still killing > | all the circuits going through you... > (snip) > > I didn't know this; since I'm using Kitsune-OR experimentally in part, > I've SIGHUP'ed it quite often after tweaking it. I thought that SIGHUP > didn't harm circuits like a restart obviously would, but I guess I was > wrong.
Sorry for the ambiguity. The circuits die because the IP address has changed in the above scenario. The hupping is incidental. Just hupping Tor by itself doesn't cut circuits. --Roger