weird path selection

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     Someone is up to some shenanigans, methinks.  Or perhaps someone's
copy of tor has a newly discovered bug.  I just noticed an odd message
go by, so I checked the current log file to see how often it was happening.
It turns out it's happening fairly frequently.  So far, there have been 348
of them today, beginning with

May 24 02:08:04.193 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:08:10.412 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:08:20.804 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:08:54.971 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:09:07.518 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:09:27.904 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:09:34.800 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 02:09:36.374 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.

and ending with

May 24 08:28:30.591 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:29:21.266 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:37:45.328 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:37:49.967 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:38:02.635 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:38:26.871 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:39:43.807 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.
May 24 08:40:41.589 [info] connection_or_connect(): Client asked me to connect to myself. Refusing.

     I can't think of any way to know whether this stuff is deliberate or is
the result of a messed-up client, but it does strike me as peculiar.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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