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On Windows I have used XBBrowser, which provides a custom version of Firefox suited to using Tor.
XBBrowser provides a button, flush tor circuit, which will setup an entirely new connection and exit node.
I am wondering how to do the equivalent thing on Linux. ALl I can do is restart tor, which does not seem to make any difference.
So, on Linux, how would I flush the circuit?
Jack
Posted 2010-05-06T10:34:34.500
Reputation: 1 621
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The solution is to enable the control port in torrc
It is also important to set a password for the control port with tor --hash-password password
You can then connect to the control port and issue a NEWNYM commands.
printf "AUTHENTICATE \"password\"\r\nSIGNAL NEWNYM\r\n" | nc 127.0.0.1 9051
Jack
Posted 2010-05-06T10:34:34.500
Reputation: 1 621
Does this really close all circuits? On Windows at least, if I do "SIGNAL NEWNYM" followed by "getinfo circuit-status" I often find old open circuits. I have to use the "closecircuit" command to be sure all circuits are closed. – Ogglas – 2015-09-30T16:35:48.977
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If you use the Vidalia GUI, you can use the Network map to close all circuits. It's not as fast, but does the same thing.
user1686
Posted 2010-05-06T10:34:34.500
Reputation: 283 655
Nope, no GUI... – Jack – 2010-05-06T21:04:22.497
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969958/how-to-change-tor-exit-node-programmatically || http://superuser.com/questions/449060/tor-how-to-have-different-ip-address-for-every-page-request – Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2015-11-15T23:09:28.810