Finding my exit node

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Tue Jul 11 06:57:11 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:55:17AM -0400, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote:
> I'm currently using an exit node that's returning "TorEnd" as the  
> response to any HTTP request. Vidalia doesn't seem to work (doesn't  
> see that Tor is running), so what's the best way to find out what my  
> current exit node is? I'd like to email the owner or at least report  
> the problem to someone.

Option one: get your Vidalia working. Perhaps your ControlPort isn't
enabled, or you're not letting Vidalia launch your Tor, or something.

Option two: install Blossom instead and use that to display what circuits
you're using: http://afs.eecs.harvard.edu/~goodell/blossom/

Option three: run at log-level info, and look through the logs for the
description of your circuit's path whenever you launch a stream or close
a stream.

Option four: enable your controlport, and telnet localhost 9051,
"authenticate", "setevents circ stream", and match things up manually.

Personally, I'd probably choose option three at this point. But I spend
a lot of time looking through Tor's logs to make sure everything is
working right, so I'm used to them. :)

--Roger



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