multiple connections to ORPort from one IP address

[Scott Bennett]

     On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 10:51:33 -0400 Geoffrey Goodell
<goodell at eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>Cc: or-talk at seul.org

     Not sure here why you posted twice, but...

>On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:44:09AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>      I just noticed a case of six connections to my server's ORPort that all
>> came from the same IP address.  I'm trying to think of some legitimate reason
>> for more than one connection from a given IP address to a particular server's
>> ORPort, but haven't come up with any yet.  Any ideas out there?
>
>NAT

     How so?  Any tor process, whether client-only, server-only, or client-and-
server, needs no more than one open connection to a particular tor server's
ORPort.  What would a tor process making connections from behind a NAT server
have to do with whether there were only one connection or were multiple
connections?  One of us, I think, is missing the other's point, but I'm not
sure which one here.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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