Re: connection dies

[phobos@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:21:47AM +0100, slush@xxxxxxxxxx wrote 2.6K bytes in 59 lines about:
: Next possibility is that some relay on path was stopped/restarted.
: Personally it make me sense that network like Tor is not as stable as normal
: Internet connection.

I still can't replicate this.  Even when a node in the circuit carrying
my IM traffic goes away, the connection is switched to another circuit.
Perhaps you need to set LongLivedPorts in your torrc?

LongLivedPorts PORTS
A list of ports for services that tend to have long-running connections
(e.g. chat and interactive shells). Circuits for streams  that  use
these ports will contain only high-uptime nodes, to reduce the chance
that a node will go down before the stream is finished.  (Default: 21,
22, 706, 1863, 5050, 5190, 5222, 5223, 6667, 6697, 8300)

-- 
Andrew