Hi, this problem doesnt appear to be something that can be solved by restarting tor, the bridge function and entry configuration options are both broken, this is a very serious issue that has gone unaddressed by the devs, who dont seem to participate in their own mailing list.
-------- Original Message -------- From: Soul Plane <[email protected]> Apparently from: [email protected] To: User support for Tails <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tails-support] EntryNodes config option is not working in tails Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 13:32:34 -0400 > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi, ive run into some specific cases where i have to set what entry or > > > exit nodes i use. In root terminal i input > > > > > > gedit /etc/tor/torrc > > > > > > and add the entry > > > > > > ExitNodes 67C1C699BF0C0E97C8E60ACF45C707872633A4CA > > > > > > Then save and reboot. > > > > > > Remember that every configuration done to Tails is lost when you reboot, > > so that won't work. You could try to restart Tor instead: > > > > sudo service tor restart > > > > But that comes with no guarantee of any kind... > > > > > You can reload tor's configuration by sending the HUP signal. > > killall -HUP tor > > In the message log it will say received HUP signal, reloading configuration > and resetting state. > > > > I've tried setting specific exit nodes and it's caused some weird problems > for me. I remember when if I had it set to use a specific exit and it > couldn't connect it would just retry through different paths infinitely. I > don't know a lot about tor but it seems like that could compromise your > anonymity if that happens. This was a few years ago when I was trying it out > so I'm not sure if that still can happen or maybe I did something wrong but > beware. > > > _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
