Hi, The response I had from a recent visit to check.torproject.org in Tor Browser was that the apparent IP address was not a Tor node and I was "not using Tor". According to Tor Browser, the exit node of that circuit was "Sweden (153.92.126.19)" - either [TheTor] or [ThisTor]. The source of the web request as it appeared to check.torproject.org was the address, 185.65.132.100 (se8x.mullvad.net), in Sweden. Do I have it right: this appears to be a node which sends tor exit traffic through the Mullvad VPN service? Is such a configuration acceptable; does is not cause problems for the tor network (leaving aside the confusion and alarm it may engender in TB users)? jah [TheTor]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/27CE487BABE6C2128FB2D1A801C7CB715B48EC... [ThisTor]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/C369EB6BFDFB996864746944544B82C9684C46...
On 08/18/2016 04:40 PM, jah wrote:
Hi,
The response I had from a recent visit to check.torproject.org in Tor Browser was that the apparent IP address was not a Tor node and I was "not using Tor".
According to Tor Browser, the exit node of that circuit was "Sweden (153.92.126.19)" - either [TheTor] or [ThisTor]. The source of the web request as it appeared to check.torproject.org was the address, 185.65.132.100 (se8x.mullvad.net), in Sweden.
Do I have it right: this appears to be a node which sends tor exit traffic through the Mullvad VPN service? Is such a configuration acceptable; does is not cause problems for the tor network (leaving aside the confusion and alarm it may engender in TB users)?
jah
[TheTor]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/27CE487BABE6C2128FB2D1A801C7CB715B48EC... [ThisTor]: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/C369EB6BFDFB996864746944544B82C9684C46...
Yes, people are routing Tor exits via VPN services ;) Mostly, I think, it's for "safely" running exits from home. But there's also the goal of circumventing Tor blocks. VPN providers don't like it at all, by the way.
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