Why some Tor servers are slow (was Re: TOR Park Exit Node Question)

[Peter Palfrader]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Roger Dingledine wrote:

> There is something wrong with the masquerade Tor server. You can see it
> yourself (you may have to try from someplace other than masquerade's LAN,
> though) -- run "telnet 155.207.113.227 9001" and hit enter about 10 times.
> 
> Notice how it's really sluggish and takes a long time before it hangs up.
> 
> Now run "telnet 82.94.251.206 443" and do the same thing. Notice how it
> realizes the ssl handshake has failed after about 5 lines. This is how
> it's supposed to be.

Or, if you would rather try a real SSL handshake, use openssl and see
how long it takes:

| weasel at galaxy:~$ time openssl s_client -connect 82.94.251.206:443
| CONNECTED(00000003)
| depth=1 /O=TOR/CN=Tonga <identity>
[..]
| openssl s_client -connect 82.94.251.206:443  0.01s user 0.00s system 12% cpu 0.130 total

compared to

| weasel at galaxy:~$ time openssl s_client -connect 155.207.113.227:9001
| CONNECTED(00000003)
| depth=1 /O=TOR/CN=masquerade <identity>
[..]
| openssl s_client -connect 155.207.113.227:9001  0.01s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 7.070 total


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