[tor-relays] Creating circuits to myself?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:08:58PM -0400, Niles Rogoff wrote:
> I was using arm when I noticed this line:
> 
>  173.79.154.243         -->  173.79.154.243 (us)         Purpose:
> Ags=is_internal,need_capacity, Circuit ID: 5
>                                                       4.0m (CIRCUIT)
> That's my IP, and it showed the exit node as the same as my node. There are
> currently three circuits both originating *and* exiting at my node. I am
> using Tor 0.2.3.25 (recommended) on Windows 7. My fingerprint
> is 1E598CDB9BBC751D753146D880B326952886D73B

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay

See 'phase one'.

--Roger