[tor-talk] "Tor Circuit" list in TBB displaying incorrect exit node and IP address

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Sun Dec 23 22:05:03 UTC 2018


On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 03:10:00PM -0000, jiggytwiggy at danwin1210.me wrote:
> The odd behavior only happens with certain sites:
> https://bitcointalk.org/, https://www.cato.org/,
> https://www.whatismyip.com/ (for example - there must be many more)
> 
> It does not happen with Google, Gmail, Amazon, Alexa, Yahoo, CNN, BBC, etc.

bitcointalk is a cloudflare website. So is whatismyip.com.

> Is this a known bug? Or something problematic with certain sites? Why are
> these sites different?

Assuming the difference is "cloudflare vs not cloudflare", check out
https://trac.torproject.org/27590

You can also read
https://trac.torproject.org/27949
and
https://trac.torproject.org/28033
for related tickets that got closed as duplicates of #27590 but might
still give you more context.

--Roger



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