[tor-talk] Strange TOR connection behavior? EntryNodes/Strict

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2011-10-17 12:24 , fatigue at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> I'm a little new to TOR. I run it in linux and start and stop it from
> a terminal window. I have changed my torrc to include the following:
> 
> 
> EntryNodes poohbear
> 
> where 'poohbear' is the entry node I wish to use.
> 
> This setup works, however when I monitor the traffic with wireshark,
> I see that tor is making many https connections to other tor nodes
> prior to establishing a secure connection with the poohbear node.

Those are likely the fetches for the Tor Directory data which is
effectively a list of all Tor nodes in the network, thus the also how to
reach your poohbear node etc.

> Why is this the case? Shouldn't the EntryNodes operator limit
> connections to the poobear node, and only the poohbear node? 

For the rest of your connections it should.

Greets,
 Jeroen