How many hidden service circuits built?

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Thu Dec 11 22:40:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25:40PM +0100, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> If I connect through the SOCKS interface several times at the same time to the 
> same hidden service, does TOR open a bunch of circuits in parallel to the 
> designated hidden service or does it just open a single one and then reuse it 
> for every of the incoming SOCKS request?

It should try to reuse the same circuit.

(You will see a bunch of circuits going to make the rendezvous happen, but
only one of them will be the one that all your streams get connected to.)

--Roger



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