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Originally Posted by john99
Ok, in the Network list/section there are some servers which do have a yellow onion/icon marked with "Exit".
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The colour indicates the node speed: gray+red means bad, yellow means ok, green means good. If "exit" is appears in the icon, it's an exit node.
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Originally Posted by john99
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I assume that my favourite server has to be dragged to "Circuits"...
But why does the new exit node server not appear under "Circuits"?
What am I doing wrong?
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First of all, building your own circuits is a bad idea if you want anonymity. If you want to build your own circuit any way, proceed as follows:
1. simply drag entry guards "X" into an empty space in the circuit list,
2. then drag some other random node "Y" to "X", making it into "X,Y",
3. and lastly drag an exit node "Z" to "X,Y" to get "X,Y,Z", which is a complete circuit ready for use.
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Originally Posted by john99
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Under "Circuits" sometimes a single server/path is listed per line. Sometimes three are 3 servers/pathes listed per line.
Does that mean in the fist case my TOR traffic is routed over one/1
TOR server and in the second case my traffic is routed over 3 servers?
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Not really; the single node circuits are for directory lookups and similar. They will never be used for applications configured to use Tor -- such traffic will always go through three node circuits.
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Originally Posted by john99
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Routig/Entry Guards (only 1 server per line/entry)
What is the purpose the servers listed here?
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The entries with a "lock" icon are
entry guards. The others I'm not so sure about...