I just restarted tor after upgrading the version, then brought up Vidalia, and one of the circuits ends in myself! (xxx,xxx,cmeclax0 where the xxx's are other relays) How come? I'm a middleman.
Correction: *three* circuits end in myself. Could this have anything to do with a hidden service? My Torchat is up but has not found myself online yet, and none of my buddies are online.
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 06:23:34PM -0400, cmeclax-sazri wrote:
Correction: *three* circuits end in myself. Could this have anything to do with a hidden service? My Torchat is up but has not found myself online yet, and none of my buddies are online.
Assuming you're a relay, those would be the reachability and bandwidth test circuits. Your relay builds a circuit back to itself to make sure other people can too; then it builds a couple more and sends 500KB divided over them, to bootstrap the capacity estimate that it publishes in its descriptor.
There are some open bugs for Tor to help Vidalia distinguish between the circuits that users think of as circuits and other types of circuits, and then for Vidalia to visualize them differently in some way. It will happen quicker if somebody helps. :)
--Roger
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