On Mon, 25 May 2009 11:41:08 -0400 Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:53:24AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > > Someone is up to some shenanigans, methinks. Or perhaps > > someone's copy of tor has a newly discovered bug. I just noticed > > an odd message go by, so I checked the current log file to see how > > often it was happening. It turns out it's happening fairly > > frequently. So far, there have been 348 of them today, beginning > > with > > > > May 24 02:08:04.193 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me > > to connect to myself. Refusing. > > Interesting. Yeah, I've been seeing these lately as well. I added some > more logging, and it looks like the "Client" is actually a wide > variety of previous Tor relays. So somebody out there is trying to > build paths "..., X, moria2, moria2" where X varies widely. > > Is it an attack? I dunno what they'd be attacking. > > My guesses are either a) an alternative Tor client that didn't think > very hard about its path selection, or b) a scientist experimenting > with Tor paths who again didn't think very hard about path selection. > Perhaps someone once again trying to build to 1 hop Tor chain to avoid latency? -- free...@gmail.com free...@yahoo.ca This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG - ( http://gnupg.org/ )
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