port 9030

[Bob]

A lot of people mirror the directory on 9030

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or-talk at freehaven.net] On
Behalf Of circut at youtopia.homelinux.org
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:32 PM
To: or-talk at freehaven.net
Subject: Re: port 9030

Run ethereal or tcpdump and capture whats going across the wire on port
9030, then
mabey submit this to the list, as I'd be interested to see what it would
need to
download as well....

Does your box function as a Tor server? Or just a Tor node?

-circut

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:44:39AM -0800, mw_prev1 at fastmail.fm wrote:
> I've noticed that every time I run Tor, it opens connections to several
> nodes (usually on port 443 or 9001).  However, it also connects to one
> node on port 9030 (not always the same node, but there's always one
> connection on port 9030) and it starts downloading something.  It lasts
> for about 30 seconds, then it stops downloading and the connection to
> port 9030 either drops, or sometimes changes to port 9001.
>
> There are no messages in the Tor window to give any indication as to
> what it's downloading.  Anyone know what's going on here?
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