Tor-Server and dynamic ip.

[Tom Hek]

On Aug 7, 2009, at 21:29:22 , Bernd Schmelter wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> my provider cut's the connection hard every 24h. Whats going on with  
> all the clients,
> they are using my server? Will they run in timeouts, or solves the  
> entire tornetwork
> this problem?
>
> Its an good idia to stop my runnig server before provider cuts my  
> internetsession with
> cronjob ( /etc/init.d/tor stop )
> an start it new after reconnect and ip-change?
>
> Benn
>

Hello Bernd,

Tor detects a changed IP address and will republish it's descriptor  
with your new IP. The Tor clients that are connected to your server  
will detect that it isn't reachable on the old IP and they will seek a  
new Tor router to make a new circuit.

Tom