repetitive address change message

Richard Johnson rdump at river.com
Tue Mar 2 21:59:43 UTC 2010


At 03:30 -0600 on 2010-03-02, Scott Bennett wrote:
> However, once reconnected, my computer got a brand-new IP address assigned
> on a net I didn't know belonged to them.  Shortly afterward, inadyn noticed
> the change and updated the A RR at dyndns.org to reflect the new address.
> Soon after that update, tor noticed the change and issued the following
> pair of messages:
>
> Mar 01 23:29:57.619 [notice] Your IP address seems to have changed to
>24.1.225.89. Updating.
> Mar 01 23:29:57.619 [notice] Our IP Address has changed from
>98.228.176.208 to 24.1.225.89; rebuilding descriptor (source: resolve).
...
> Mar 02 03:18:42.113 [notice] Our IP Address has changed from
>98.228.176.208 to 24.1.225.89; rebuilding descriptor (source: resolve).
>
> These messages appear to be issued a tad over 15 min. apart.  I'm running
> 0.2.2.7-alpha on FreeBSD 7.3-PRELEASE.
> ...
>      Does anyone have any clue why these messages are being issued?

The DNS nexus suggests it might be related to changes I noticed after
upgrading to 0.2.1.24 on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

My host's name does not resolve to an IP address due to a dynamic DNS
failure.  I've no ETR on that (and it might have been the case for months).

tor 0.2.1.22 complains, and logs (at info level or lower) that it's trying
something else.  tor 0.2.1.24 complains also, but then picks an apparently
random address.  This typically fails other checks, so it repeats.  It logs
these "changes" at notice level.

The bug I filed is here:

http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=1269


Richard
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