tor does not honor MaxCircuitDirtiness

Question

I am having a strange behaviour when using tor, it does not take into account the MaxCircuitDirtiness I have set in the configuration at Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\torrc... nor the default value that is supposed to be 10 minutes.

I use https://ipecho.net/plain to check my IP but it doesn't seem to change at the given time.

Ex: MaxCircuitDirtiness 11 should change IP every 11 seconds

Answer 1

kaur,

Please note that MaxCircuitDirtiness only ensures that a new Tor circuit is created and used, but that does not always imply a new IP (i.e. does not always imply a different "end node" on the new circuit).

You can read more in this answer, for example.