ORBot for Android has a related bug? David Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 22, 2020 8:42 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:19:35AM +0000, BRBfGWMz wrote: > > > I recently saw a series of 4 relays connected to each other: > > itomori, MediumSlesmn, hotbrownie, pellidos > > itomori, docto, Geheimschreiber, 420isGay > > Dont most relays in the network of length 3? Bug in tor? > > Your Tor picks three hops that it controls, and if it needs to build a > circuit that involves a relay that it didn't pick, it uses that other > relay as a fourth hop. > > So you didn't tell us what you were doing, but this is normal behavior > for example when you're loading an onion service, because the rendezvous > process involves building circuits to relays that the onion service > picked. Your first three relays are for protecting you, and the later > relays in the path are there for other goals. > > --Roger > > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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