Thanks for your notes. Tim. :) ________________________________________ From: tor-dev [[email protected]] on behalf of teor [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 19:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Tor path selection upon failure
> On 14 Sep 2016, at 07:28, Liu, Zhuotao <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > There have been some technical reports about how to deal with the problem > when a botnet uses Tor as its primary C&C channel. In this case, the CPU of > some relays is exhausted, causing circuit creation failure. > > I am wondering currently how a client reacts when its circuit creation fails? > Does the client simply resends create cells to the relays on the original > path or it will re-select a new path instead? I think the Tor client selects a new path, with a new Exit, HSDir, Intro Point, or Rendezvous Point (within various constraints). In the Exit case, it will try 3 different paths to 3 Exit relays that claim to allow exiting to the port it wants, then return a failure to the application that made the request. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
