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Re: [tor-relays] Tor listenes to UDP ports?

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From: Drake Wilson <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:17:58 -0600
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Quoth Wollomatic <wollomatic@xxxxxxxxx>, on 2014-01-14 00:29:39 +0100:
> Since I thought Tor only uses TCP may this be a security problem with my
> server?

Since UDP is a connectionless datagram protocol, there is no
distinguished "listening" state.  It seems more likely that those are
sockets for outgoing DNS requests.  Have you monitored the traffic on
those ports to see what it is?

   ---> Drake Wilson
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