Tor Circuit Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Torland, I've got a question about the way Tor chooses circuits. Sometimes I use Thunderbird to send mail via Tor (yeah, I know, DNS leaks) and I notice some interesting behaviour. It's my understanding that when Tor receives a request for a port that the current circuits don't allow (like SMTP), it creates a new circuit for it. I notice that I can keep trying to send mail for like half an hour (once a minute) before it finally goes through. What's interesting is that if I restart Tor and make that request right when it starts up, it almost always goes through without any difficulty. I'm not bandwidth limited so it's not like the other circuits are eating all my bandwidth. Does anybody else experience similar behaviour? Any possible explanations? Thanks, Ringo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJwgnN6pWcWSc5BE4RAg3EAJ4k+A45WzmOLVuWq2U74dZ5kFN9ewCbBRco N6tTek6ydqqh4WtkEt0UYTw= =TaJ0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Circuit question
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 12:23:18PM +0300, Evgeniy Minakov wrote: Hello, I have a question about the circuit construction. The getinfo circuit-status sometime returns response without any exit nodes. Which node used as exit node in this case? First, you might be wrong about what nodes are exits. The Exit flag in the networkstatus document is not a perfect view of whether a node can be used as an exit: to actually see whether Second, not all circuits are built for delivering traffic to the internet. Some are built for testing tor servers, some are for rendezvous points, and so on. You can see circuits' purposes in events if extended events are enabled.
Re: Circuit question
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:37:04AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: [oops. Didn't end the paragraph.] First, you might be wrong about what nodes are exits. The Exit flag in the networkstatus document is not a perfect view of whether a node can be used as an exit: to actually see whether a node can support a connection to a given service, you need to check its exit policy. yrs, -- Nik
Circuit question
Hello, I have a question about the circuit construction. The getinfo circuit-status sometime returns response without any exit nodes. Which node used as exit node in this case? And sometimes program with traffic goes through tor shows IP that belongs to exit node which not listed in circuit status. Why? Sorry for my English. Any information will be really helpful. Tor 0.2.0.28-rc
