On 11/9/2012 10:33 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:45:22PM +0100, jiang song wrote:
hi, I think sock proxy port should be 9050
but with TBB, I notice that the socket port changes every time I started
TBB, like 49223, 58871
what is the reason for this? and is it possible to make it constant?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBSocksPort
That article mentions OS X / Linux, but I don't know that the issue of
Tor using other random ports (in the FAQ) does NOT apply also to Windows?
Is there any security / anonymity difference, if Tor or TBB uses ports
other than 9050? e.g., 127.0.0.1:6xxxx
If I have say, Thunderbird configured to use the Tor (TBB) proxy -
127.0.0.1:9050, then that's what my FW - network monitor shows it's
using. But shows TBB / Tor are using other ports.
Mostly still on local 127.0.0.1, but not port 9050. With another
application configured to use Tor (or no other apps using Tor), Tor also
uses a few "regular" IP addresses, in ADDITION to 127.0.0.1:xxxxx
addresses; probably DNS lookup, or similar.
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