On Thu, 19 May 2011 01:14:30 -0700 Zach Lym indolering@gmail.com wrote:
I have been running load time tests for duckduckgo.com and ff.duckduckgo.comthrough the Tor network.
duckduckgo.com should be on an enclave nodehttps://www.dan.me.uk/torcheck?ip=72.94.249.36, ff.duckduckgo.com should not be. But they appear to be loading at comparable times and LoadUI is showing no difference between the two URLs- even more complex queries such as "what is my IP"
Can anyone tell if duckduckgo.com misconfigured? Is it the CDN that DuckDuckGo uses that equalizes the load time? Is the Tor network not utilizing the enclave node as heavily as the documentation makes it sound? Or have the exit proxies really gained that much capacity that they are no longer the bottleneck for such small small requests?
Tor finds an exit enclave for a server by looking for a relay whose IP address matches the destination server's IP address. Thus, Tor cannot begin to use the exit enclave until it has performed a DNS lookup for the server's hostname. Tor will also send the first few streams to a server with an exit enclave over an existing circuit; an exit enclave is only used once Tor has built a circuit to the enclave relay.
Robert Ransom