[tor-talk] Another Hidden Service question

2013-02-12 Thread Nathan Freitas
Does the fact that my actual IP address has changed (say my Tor client moves from a 3G to a wifi connection), or by extension, by Tor client has stopped and started, have any impact on the availability of a Hidden Service I am hosting? What I am seeing is that I can initially connect to a HS

Re: [tor-talk] Another Hidden Service question

2013-02-12 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:11:33AM +, Nathan Freitas wrote: Does the fact that my actual IP address has changed (say my Tor client moves from a 3G to a wifi connection), or by extension, by Tor client has stopped and started, have any impact on the availability of a Hidden Service I am

Re: [tor-talk] Another Hidden Service question

2013-02-12 Thread grarpamp
Does the fact that my actual IP address has changed (say my Tor client moves from a 3G to a wifi connection), or by extension, by Tor client has stopped and started, have any impact on the availability of a Hidden Service I am hosting? I believe the answer is sortof. Your HS is still there

Re: [tor-talk] Another Hidden Service question

2013-02-12 Thread Nathan Freitas
grarpamp: I believe the answer is sortof. Your HS is still there and happy after the IP/TCP and all rework themselves. But there are now probably two different HS descriptors published in six places and you need to wait for one to timeout. See what rend-spec and man page says. Would modifying

Re: [tor-talk] Another Hidden Service question

2013-02-12 Thread grarpamp
Would modifying RendPostPeriod help with this timeout? It seems like the lowest value I can set for that is 600 seconds. I would rather it be something like 6 seconds for this scenario, but I can understand how that might cause a problem. I can't answer if tor senses and republishes on an ip