[tor-relays] recently saw 4 tor relays in row on tails. bug in tor?

[David Poulsen]

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On Thursday, October 22, 2020 8:42 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:19:35AM +0000, BRBfGWMz wrote:
> 

> > I recently saw a series of 4 relays connected to each other:
> > itomori, MediumSlesmn, hotbrownie, pellidos
> > itomori, docto, Geheimschreiber, 420isGay
> > Dont most relays in the network of length 3? Bug in tor?
> 

> Your Tor picks three hops that it controls, and if it needs to build a
> circuit that involves a relay that it didn't pick, it uses that other
> relay as a fourth hop.
> 

> So you didn't tell us what you were doing, but this is normal behavior
> for example when you're loading an onion service, because the rendezvous
> process involves building circuits to relays that the onion service
> picked. Your first three relays are for protecting you, and the later
> relays in the path are there for other goals.
> 

> --Roger
> 

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