[tor-talk] What's this error message and should a Tor user be concerned?

Chris Hillman chillman at cs.uml.edu
Wed Nov 9 20:33:48 UTC 2011


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Andre, what you are doing reading my Tor log file?  Explain yourself, sir!

Just kidding.  I think I know the answer to your question (someone please correct me if I am wrong):

Did you modify the default Tor configuration to exclude some nodes?  If you excluded a node which advertises itself as a directory server, then you will see that message whenever your Tor client tries to connect to the excluded node.  The big number is the fingerprint (safer than logging the fully qualified domain name).

If you temporarily comment out the ExcludeNodes line and restart Tor, and then don't see these lines, this would be consistent with my guess.

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