Heigrade writes: > Hello, > > I am new to TOR and networking in general and had a question about ip > addresses that TOR connects to. > > My question is this: > > After analyzing tcpdump data of TOR traffic, I've noticed that TOR > always connects to the same ip address, even after restarts, whereas I > had expected it to connect to different addresses across restarts. Is > this address my ISP?
It's probably the entry guard that Tor chose for you. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards This is meant to reduce the chance that you'll choose an entry node and an exit node secretly controlled or monitored by the same entity. Some more technical details are in https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters and probably other places. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk