Same entry and exit node?

Jonathan D. Proulx jon at csail.mit.edu
Tue Oct 11 15:00:23 UTC 2005


On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:35:51AM -0700, mw_prev1 at fastmail.fm wrote:
:I notice that everytime I run Tor it opens connections to several nodes.
: I know this is normal, but recently I ran Tor and checked my IP - it
:showed that my IP (i.e. the exit node) was the SAME IP as one of the
:entry nodes I was connected to!
:
:I cleared the browser cache beforehand so it can't be a cache problem.
:
:Surely this can't be right, is it really possible that Tor can use the
:same node for entry and exit?

It's certainly possible to use the same node as an entry point for one
circuit and an exit for another.  Perhaps this is what's happening?



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