Another tor question

[jd1008]

On 07/14/2015 06:25 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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>
> .... I am using tor with firefox to browse the web. Some sites seem to 
> detect & block this type of access. Sometimes, however, I seem to 
> slither through, usually 1st thing in the A.M. after my (cable-modem) 
> access has been offline all night & tor has dropped all of its 
> circuits (according to its log file). Is that in fact an accurate 
> analysis, i.e. I am browsing 'naked' until tor re-establishes circuits 
> ? System info:
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 7:31:25am] 551 % uname -a
> FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p13 #0: Tue 
> Apr  7 03:01:12 UTC 2015 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 7:31:32am] 552 %
>
> tor-0.2.6.9, torsocks-2.0.0
>
> From tor's log file:
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 7:26:59am] 440 % ( tail -20 /var/log/tor ; date )
> Jul 13 22:36:09.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:42:30.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:42:31.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:42:32.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:43:49.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:48:54.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:50:11.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:50:12.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:50:13.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:50:14.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:54:03.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:54:04.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:54:05.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:56:38.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:56:39.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:56:40.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:56:41.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 13 22:56:42.000 [warn] Failed to find node for hop 0 of our path. 
> Discarding this circuit.
> Jul 14 01:58:43.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 18:00 
> hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 27.67 MB and received 111.14 MB.
> Jul 14 01:58:43.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 66.503%. 
> TLS write overhead: 9%
> Tue Jul 14 07:30:39 MCDT 2015
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 7:30:39am] 440 %
>
>
You found a chink in tor's armor :)