On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:06:37 -0400 Nick Mathewson <nickm@freehaven.net> wrote:

This seems plausible, though 0.0.0.0:x will just be the local computer as well.

Maybe you could try routing to a known-unassigned address, or one that Tor simply won't support, like the one from RFC 6666?

From my understanding 0.0.0.0/32 is a special address that is not supposed to be routable. But `ping 0.0.0.0` does seem to redirect it to 127.0.0.1 for whatever reason; it might be some odd Linux-specific behaviour. I'll check for other known-unroutable addresses and try one of them.

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It's in Traffic.py, Source.handle_connect(), in this line:

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Caitlin