Re: uptime of tor servers with dynamic ip after every ip change zero

[Peter Palfrader <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Marco A. Calamari wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 14:55 +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Arichy wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > is it right that the uptime of tor server gets zero when it's ip
> > > changes?
> > 
> > Yes.  If you kill all existing connections every day then you're just no
> > good for long lived connections like irc.
> 
> But tor itself reset connections after 10 minutes, so one change
>  a day is 1 / 144 possibility to drop connection.
> Not so bad; the overall network show a far less reliability.

No, Tor doesn't kill circuits with live streams on them.  IRC
connections over Tor can live for days and weeks.

> Most of new routers will be on dynamic IP, so their
>  contribution is important.

Sure, they are fine for web surfing and everything that doesn't require
long lived connections.

Peter
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