Tor limitation

loki tiwaz loki_tiwaz at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 16 12:31:18 UTC 2005


i'd say you need to try out the latest alpha release then, the dns 
resolution problem is more of a problem with the 'stable' release. I'm not 
sure exactly the reason, something about it making new circuits more quickly 
or something.


>From: Darren Griffith <madphilosopher at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>Subject: Re: Tor limitation
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:52:07 +0800
>
> > Many  of  the Chinese who are using tor are complaining that it is too
> > slow  to be usable by them. I imagine that those who feel they need to
> > use this program don't mind it being at about dial-up speeds.
>
>I'm in Beijing and I'm happy that Tor is there when I need it. In
>fact, en.wikipedia.org is now blocked by my ISP, so Tor is almost
>essential. But yes, it's pretty slow, though I'm patient. Only lately,
>I'm consistently getting DNS lookup failures, and that's what's mostly
>eroding my experience of using Tor all the time. (I know I should
>change the config of my client to give more logging info so I can
>track down this bad exit node, but I haven't made the effort yet.)
>
>--
>Darren Paul Griffith
>www.madphilosopher.ca

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