>> > HOWEVER: killing tor in 30 seconds seems to me a little harsh on all >> > those anonymous connections that were previously going through my exit >> > relay. Can those clients (if they need) pick up their connections >> > after about 3 minutes? It appeared that all connections were >> > completely gone when I finally got tor restarted > > As soon as your relay goes away the circuits will be cut, and the streams > that clients had on those circuits will be cut too. Whether those clients > will automatically reconnect those streams on new circuits depends on > the application.
Is there some longer term sense in having a SOCKS protocol enhancement to have the SOCKS/TOR server notify applications connecting through it, that it intends to shutdown the relay/socks facility at X minutes into the future? In the tor relays itself, this would of course need some TOR control channel or protocol where the 'relay reboot in X minutes' gets propagated back to the end users of the channels through this relay/ exit node. Although 'reconnect' is robust enough, prima facie, a little more niceness for the users would be a good thing, I'd think. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
