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

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.