[tor-relays] why non-exit node becomes last in the circuits?

Nick Mathewson nickm at torproject.org
Mon Aug 10 14:12:21 UTC 2020


On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 9:55 AM tor-operator-sahara-it
<tor-operator-sahara-it at protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> On Tails:
> Today i found that my jabber messenger (with server in *.onion) use onion circuit with three nodes, and two times from two exit-nodes were very strange.
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/92E807AC5E23CCD9FE623EA4DC020B1627A0D09B
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AC5CECEF6AF649F2A7F047D102FE9B461DA9234E
>
> They havnt exit-flag. Why it happen?

Onion services don't need to use exit nodes, since their traffic
doesn't need to leave the tor network.

-- 
Nick


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