Re: [tor-relays] Is TOR using more than just OrPort and DirPort?

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:45:03PM -0700, Daniel Wu wrote:

There are these connections, from 127.0.0.1 back to itself. Some sort of internal process used by Tor? Not as concerned about these, since these are internal. But still curious.

TCP 127.0.0.1:63417 127.0.0.1:63418 ESTABLISHED TCP 127.0.0.1:63418 127.0.0.1:63417 ESTABLISHED TCP 127.0.0.1:63419 127.0.0.1:63420 ESTABLISHED

This is because Windows doesn't have socketpair(), so we use a pair of sockets explicitly: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/refs/heads/release-0.2.3:/src/com...

In short (as you guessed), nothing to worry about.

--Roger