On 2011-10-17 12:24 , fati...@safe-mail.net wrote: > I'm a little new to TOR. I run it in linux and start and stop it from > a terminal window. I have changed my torrc to include the following: > > > EntryNodes poohbear > > where 'poohbear' is the entry node I wish to use. > > This setup works, however when I monitor the traffic with wireshark, > I see that tor is making many https connections to other tor nodes > prior to establishing a secure connection with the poohbear node.
Those are likely the fetches for the Tor Directory data which is effectively a list of all Tor nodes in the network, thus the also how to reach your poohbear node etc. > Why is this the case? Shouldn't the EntryNodes operator limit > connections to the poobear node, and only the poohbear node? For the rest of your connections it should. Greets, Jeroen _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk