Re: What happens when I shut down my Tor-server?

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:49:24 +0200 "Alexander W. Janssen"
<alexander.janssen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>for maintenance-reasons I had to shut down my server today. However,
>after shutting down the server I realized that there's still much
>traffic, although shutdown was 30 minutes ago.
>
>So, does the server tell it's peers that it's going down? Does it
>deregister? Or is that stray-traffic?

     From the man page:

SIGNALS
       Tor catches the following signals:


       SIGTERM
              Tor will catch this, clean up and sync to disk if necessary, and
              exit.


       SIGINT Tor clients behave as with SIGTERM; but Tor servers  will  do  a
              controlled  slow shutdown, closing listeners and waiting 30 sec-
              onds before exiting.  (The delay  can  be  configured  with  the
              ShutdownWaitLength config option.)


Skipping your questions, I pose the following ones.
	1) Which signal did you send tor to get it to shut down?
	2) If SIGINT, had ShutdownDelay seconds passed within the 30-minute
	   period to which you referred?
	3) Are there other network applications running on the same computer
	   to which some/all of the traffic you claim to see could be
	   attributed?


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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