4 and 5 hop circuits can be created when contacting or publishing hidden services and, I believe, sometimes when retrieving directory information. Many nodes run directories on port 443, so that's not particularly unusual.
For the thread as a whole, I still think the problem is that this exit node is being *explicitly* requested (www.google.com.blabla.exit), and that it would never be chosen automatically by tor itself, as I stated in my first message. StrictExitNodes is an irrelevant setting. - John Brooks On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Anon Mus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Li-Hui Zhou wrote: >> >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:12:09 +0200 >> Martin Balvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Li-Hui Zhou wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:19:24 -0700 >>>> "F. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> When choosing nodes to *use* exclusively, this line has to be added, in >>>>> addition to the ExitNodes line: >>>>> >>>>> StrictExitNodes 1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> There's no such options right now. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> There is, see http://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en for details. >>> >> >> If it's StrictExitNodes option that your're talking, I think it only >> applied when there's specific exit nodes with option ExitNodes. I'm not >> sure if it's working with blacklist set by ExcludeNodes or >> ExcludeExitNodes. >> >> BTW, there's a warn with StrictExitNodes 1 >> >> [warn] StrictExitNodes set, but no ExitNodes listed. >> >> >> > > I was using Tor stable install (v0.2.0.30 (r15956)) & Vidalia 0.1.8 > on win2k and ExcludeNodes does not appear to work. > > (or-talk "TOR v0.2.0.30 (r15956) - ExcludeNodes appears to fail" August 25th > 2008) > > Maybe the problem is related. > > Curiously, I have also seen three instances 4 hops circuits and a single > instance of a 5 hop circuit built, according to vidalia's connection map. > Also all 4 circuits had a a curious IP address target with a UID:443 port > exit node, when I was not requesting any traffic! > > Not sure quite what to make of it. > > Am I trojaned, with a special version of TOR, that does 4 and 5 hop circuits > when it dials home? > > > -K- >
