Suppose I have a relay (not a client) which starts out with one open ORPort and a local controller.
1) Is there a better way (read "supported in STEM") than using SETCONF to add ORPort lines, to direct this relay to open additional ORPorts?
2) Will adding or removing ORPorts at runtime affect established connections to other ORPorts (those which are open before and after the change)?
thanks zw
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com wrote:
Suppose I have a relay (not a client) which starts out with one open ORPort and a local controller.
- Is there a better way (read "supported in STEM") than using SETCONF
to add ORPort lines, to direct this relay to open additional ORPorts?
That's the way we'd intended.
- Will adding or removing ORPorts at runtime affect established
connections to other ORPorts (those which are open before and after the change)?
I don't think it will.
What have you got in mind here? It sounds clever.
yrs,
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Nick Mathewson nickm@alum.mit.edu wrote:
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com wrote:
Suppose I have a relay (not a client) which starts out with one open ORPort and a local controller.
- Is there a better way (read "supported in STEM") than using SETCONF
to add ORPort lines, to direct this relay to open additional ORPorts?
That's the way we'd intended.
- Will adding or removing ORPorts at runtime affect established
connections to other ORPorts (those which are open before and after the change)?
I don't think it will.
OK, thanks, good to hear.
What have you got in mind here? It sounds clever.
The short version is, in order to run traffic analysis experiments on Tor, I am puppeteering a bunch of TBBs (each in its own VM) from a controller host which is also their dedicated private bridge. (That way, I can be sure I'm not spying on anyone other than myself.) It is convenient if each TBB gets its own ORPort at the bridge, but I was hoping to avoid having to run more than one Tor process. The puppets come and go (they're probably going to be EC2 spot instances for large-scale runs) so I wanted to know if I could dynamically assign them ORPorts as they come in.
zw
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