I'm
testing few things in Tor and I noticed that if im changing(from the
source code) the number of hop's(nodes) to be more then 3 hop's it
work's fine(slowly, but still working) and if im sting only 2 hop's its
still works great. but, when i'm setting only 1 hop, i can open the
Tor-browser but i can't use it(Tor-browser) to visit site(regular site
or onion site too). so im thinking maybe the Tor-network have protected
from users who are using 1 hop?
I guess it's part of the DoS protection recently implemented. My guard relay DoS statistics in the heartbeat log entry:
[notice] DoS mitigation since startup: 0 circuits killed with too many cells. 232704 circuits rejected, 15 marked addresses. 2939 connections closed. 1534 single hop clients refused.