Online Privacy: An introduction to TOR network and online security: How to stay anonymous in the Internet by Rowley William

Author:Rowley, William [Rowley, William]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: LongLivedPorts in Tor

After re-visiting certain websites from a different IP, you might be logged out. This feature relies on the LongLivedPorts. You can choose to add the following to the torrc which will establish connections to certain ports using the same circuit for a longer time:

LongLivedPorts 80,23,21,22,706,1863,5050,5190,5222,5223,6667,8300,8888

The services identified by these ports usually have long running connections. A good example of this is the interactive shell or the chat. Circuits for the streams using these ports usually have high-uptime nodes. This helps in keeping a node high until the stream is finished. Client and server circuits, which involve hidden services with a virtual port, contained in the list also honor this. MapAddress is a good alternative to LongLivedPorts. However, this applies only to certain sites.

With this, connections to a given site will always go through the same connection. In case you need your site to be visited through a particular country, this is a good option for you. Consider the example shown below:

MapAddress www.mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com.node.exit

In the above example, visits to the site www.mywebsite.com will only be through node. However, this should be replaced with the node that you know, including its location. Suppose that you are the only person in use of this node, this means that when connections come from the same node, www.mywebsite.com will easily know that it is the same person.

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