Hello Roger Thanks a lot. I thought I had emailed to a wrong group initially so I emailed to all the groups. Sorry about that spamming. Ill go through this and get back.
Thanks Sambuddho On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 17:32 -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: > Btw, please pick only one mailing list to send your mail to. Your > follow-up mail actually sent it to three lists, not just two. This is > not cool. :) > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:50:14PM -0500, Sambuddho Chakravarty wrote: > > Hello All > > I have a general question. I am using the default torrc (without > > specifying which ORs to select and letting the client determine the > > "best" ones for itself). Is there a way to detect which are the ORs the > > client picks up for the entry , middleman and exit nodes (rather than > > hacking into the source code of the tor client). I am using a rather > > dated version of the client - 0.1.2.18. > > The traditional way to do this is to open your Tor's control port, > and then attach a controller program (lika Vidalia, but you can write > your own too with the torctl libraries) to ask questions like this. See > doc/spec/control-spec.txt for many more details. > > For example, if you send > setevents extended circ stream > > Then for streams you get lines like this > > 650 STREAM 17 NEW 0 www.google.com:80 SOURCE_ADDR=127.0.0.1:51279 PURPOSE=USER > 650 STREAM 17 SENTCONNECT 5 www.google.com:80 > 650 STREAM 17 REMAP 5 72.14.235.104:80 SOURCE=EXIT > 650 STREAM 17 SUCCEEDED 5 72.14.235.104:80 > 650 STREAM 18 NEW 0 www.google.com.tw:80 SOURCE_ADDR=127.0.0.1:51280 > PURPOSE=USER > 650 STREAM 18 SENTCONNECT 5 www.google.com.tw:80 > 650 STREAM 18 REMAP 5 72.14.235.99:80 SOURCE=EXIT > 650 STREAM 18 SUCCEEDED 5 72.14.235.99:80 > 650 STREAM 17 CLOSED 5 72.14.235.104:80 REASON=END REMOTE_REASON=unknown > > and interspersed with that you get circ info like > 650 CIRC 10 LAUNCHED PURPOSE=GENERAL > 650 CIRC 10 EXTENDED $43AF24071B400911629D5BC9FC20DE335F9DFC00 PURPOSE=GENERAL > 650 CIRC 10 EXTENDED $43AF24071B400911629D5BC9FC20DE335F9DFC00,ratator > PURPOSE=GENERAL > 650 CIRC 10 EXTENDED > $43AF24071B400911629D5BC9FC20DE335F9DFC00,ratator,$D3EAC880BECBE5F80DB4609F225D351CC4F72395 > PURPOSE=GENERAL > 650 CIRC 10 BUILT > $43AF24071B400911629D5BC9FC20DE335F9DFC00,ratator,$D3EAC880BEC > > You can also do a command like > getinfo circuit-status > which will spit out a summary: > > getinfo circuit-status > 250+circuit-status= > 9 EXTENDED gremlin,pickaproxy > 8 BUILT > BostonUCompSci,$D0FF59689F9148D47B03DC03025853C80315A930,$D1C0C9FF2F88EB291DD436A1485DD471EB80D40F > 6 BUILT gremlin,myrnaloy,godzilla,tor26 > 4 BUILT gremlin,SEC,vallenator > 3 BUILT > $43AF24071B400911629D5BC9FC20DE335F9DFC00,$8318A0A99B26785C6AB59FB3A290F6A04ADDD42C,vallenator > 2 BUILT > BostonUCompSci,$2682892CB12EDA0B69049C42A8483A680F70F56F,$83044401FD17BB48723049ED5BF7F1E9A9AB1A00,EviDancerDirServer > 1 BUILT gremlin,SEC,$F701FBB7B5B70B765751D71DA8FE40E517223331 > . > > --Roger > >
