Hi, k e bera, thanks a lot for your reply. The reason that I want to run multiple tor instead of the same exit nodes is because I am trying to figure out what is the capability of this technology, and actually, I am only using this purely for academic purpose. I have already followed your advise and after properly set up separate configuration files for each tor. Then I could use all of them using a python script.

I also have subscribed to the tor-talk maillist.

Thanks again for your info.

Best,

/usr/bin

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:52 PM, k e bera <keb@cyblings.on.ca> wrote:

First, you would be better to ask in the tor-talk list, because your question is about how to configure and use Tor rather than how to improve its internals.

You can run multiple Tor instances on the same machine. It merely requires management of the config files to keep the ports separate. Privoxy and polipo or other http proxies are usually no longer needed. See
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBPolipo

Finally, why would you *not* want your website scraping requests to come from the same exit node? (Note that a new exit node is chosen approximately every 10 minutes for web connections.) If you are trying to avoid getting banned from a site that disallows periodic scraping, for example Craigslist, using multiple exit nodes (aka circuits) will soon result in the entire Tor network being banned by the target site, denying anonymous users that valuable resource.

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:23:15 -0700
Bin Wang <binwang.cu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your reply :)
> I know that we can add up more SocksPort into torrc file, however, my
> current idea is to build different tor threads.
> In my opinion, a complete tor threads starts from privoxy(polipo. etc.),
> then point 8118 to 9050 as default, then tor points 9050 to the outside
> networks..
> What I want to do is build many threads like this, for example, I have
> $ ls /etc/tor
> >> torrc torrc2 torrc3 torrc4...
> torrc points to 9050, torrc2 points to 9150..etc
> at the same time, running different privoxies, privoxy points 8118 to 9050,
> then privoxy2 points 8119 to 9150, etc....
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/RunTwoPrivoxys
> I am still struggling with it.. and not quite sure whether this is
> applicable and is there any better solution to run multiple threads of tor.
> Best regards,
> Bin Wang
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:01 AM, <adrelanos@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> > stream isolation

_______________________________________________
tor-dev mailing list
tor-dev@lists.torproject.org
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev