greetings! i have found something in the vidalia message log that seems a little unusual:
Jan 23 17:44:03.906 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from 87.194.38.72 to 212.112.242.159; rebuilding descriptor. Jan 23 17:44:11.546 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Jan 23 17:44:27.000 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from 212.112.242.159 to 87.194.38.72; rebuilding descriptor. Jan 23 17:44:30.375 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. Jan 23 17:44:50.546 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the 87.194.38.72 ip address belongs to my tor relay freeflow [not exit] location: london (GB) bandwidth: 90 KB/s uptime: 0 days hostname: 87-194-38-72.bethere.co.uk [87.194.38.72] fast server tor version: 0.1.2.19 running on windows xp [workstation] [terminal services] [single user] the 212.112.242.159 ip address belongs to a tor relay called maximator based in germany. router: maximator bandwidth: 95 KB/s uptime: 2 days hostname: anon-tor-proxy.maximator.org [212.112.242.159] fast server directory server guard server stable server tor version: 0.1.2.19 running on Linux i686 i installed tor 0.1.2.19 & began running as a server on Jan 22 at 21:18:44 & was previously running the same relay on tor 0.1.2.18/17/16 any help in making sense of this log would be appreciated! regards john smith