On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:33:43PM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: > New theory: in rare cases, Tor servers (like maximator) lie to directory > clients about what IP address they appear to have, due to iptables > confusion or something similar. More specifically, it claims that > everybody looks like itself. Then Tor servers that don't know their own > address get suckered into thinking they switched.
Ok. Now that I've had a moment with a real Internet, I've confirmed this: $ telnet 212.112.242.159 80 Trying 212.112.242.159... Connected to 212.112.242.159. Escape character is '^]'. GET /tor/ HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:28:32 GMT Content-Type: text/plain X-Your-Address-Is: 212.112.242.159 Content-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 820 Expires: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:28:32 GMT Thanks to a patch submitted by "Andrew S. Lists", this particular issue will be fixed in the upcoming 0.2.0.19-alpha release. Thanks, --Roger
