How do I tell if tor is working ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 11/19/14 11:03, Robert Teel wrote:
> On 11/19/2014 10:43 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> forget about this, I now see stuff in tor logfile, however, that 
>> output raises a new question:
>>
>>
>> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:39:04am] 388 % ( tail -15 /var/log/tor ; date )
>> Nov 19 01:20:24.000 [notice] TLS write overhead: 15%
>> Nov 19 07:20:24.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 15 days 0:00 
>> hours, with 0 circuits open. I've sent 2.85 MB and received 66.00 MB.
>> Nov 19 07:20:24.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 75.050%
>> Nov 19 07:20:24.000 [notice] TLS write overhead: 15%
>> Nov 19 10:16:23.000 [notice] Application request when we haven't used 
>> client functionality lately. Optimistically trying directory fetches 
>> again.
>> Nov 19 10:16:37.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information 
>> to build circuits.
>> Nov 19 10:16:38.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. 
>> Looks like client functionality is working.
>> Nov 19 10:34:58.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $9480EBF2412469D219237D422B4F2A1185CB4112~Unnamed at 198.50.151.228. 
>> Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:34:59.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $9480EBF2412469D219237D422B4F2A1185CB4112~Unnamed at 198.50.151.228. 
>> Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:13.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $4C4C145D632DA31C20D4CE10829756F34C0D3EE8~ArachnideFR4 at 
>> 95.130.9.89. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:14.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $4C4C145D632DA31C20D4CE10829756F34C0D3EE8~ArachnideFR4 at 
>> 95.130.9.89. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:28.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $16C8B29E441E53778E2A4DBC1C85136D75845B85~mod101srv01 at 
>> 81.231.226.38. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:29.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $16C8B29E441E53778E2A4DBC1C85136D75845B85~mod101srv01 at 
>> 81.231.226.38. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:43.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $B035D07FB91EF419D00B0E2CEFEDD9A163EC4E1B~fuckGCHQslashNSA at 
>> 95.211.60.34. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Nov 19 10:35:44.000 [notice] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to 
>> '[scrubbed]' using exit 
>> $B035D07FB91EF419D00B0E2CEFEDD9A163EC4E1B~fuckGCHQslashNSA at 
>> 95.211.60.34. Retrying on a new circuit.
>> Wed Nov 19 10:39:08 CST 2014
>> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:39:08am] 389 %
>>
>>
>> Those last 2, w/ the last 8 letters in the server name, worries me 
>> slightly :-/ ....
>>
>>
>
> That's normal for that exit node :) The have set fuckGCHQslashNSA as 
> the nodes nickname. Mine used to say ThanksForTheFish42 there :)
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I am noticing a fair number of sites either don't work at all w/ tor, or 
work oddly (for me), such as Ebay, which searches Ebay.nl when my last 
hop is out of the Netherlands. Is there a way to tell tor to prefer last 
hops from a particular country, perhaps even on a site-by-site basis :-) 
.... That would be *sweeeeet*, otherwise I have so many proxy exceptions 
as to basically defeat the purpose of tor. Intriguingly, it works AOK w/ 
my bank & brokerage sites .... TIA.


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