Refresh session for the specific port

[SashaDesigN]

Hi, I just had read all issues to be sure that not asking twice the same question.

I set up a few ports on my torrc

SocksPort 9050
SocksPort 9052
SocksPort 9053
SocksPort 9054
ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword 16:mypass

And my NodeJS app runs 4 instances and use pre-defined port, For ex. app 1 - 9050, app 2 - 9052 and e.g.

What I want to achieve:
instances work 1min and after need to refresh the IP on the instance's port before restart.

So is there a way to refresh session for the specific port using tr.renewTorSession?

As I see so far, there no, so to make it work need to add Docker in the game and run 4 containers with TOR client inside.

Thanks for advice.

[talmobi]

Halåj,

You are correct. Docker might work for you. This library is just a tiny helper to connect to the Tor Client; and in your first example you are only running 1 Tor Client (but 4 Node.JS and what I assume 4 open ports to the Tor Client) clients.

I am not sure if the Tor Client itself can do what you want. It perhaps can, I'm not sure. (docs here: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en)

But a docker container should do the trick as that would also instantiate a branch new Tor Client for each to handle the connections, so that should work and is what I'd recommend.

[talmobi]

Also note that tr.renewTorSession is not the only way to renew ip address, another way is to simply kill and restart the Tor Client itself -- that kind of actually suggest that the Tor Client can only handle as a single IP at a time so that's more evidence you would have to use something like Docker.

[talmobi]

Also another thing: The Tor Client might renew its IP by itself randomly from time to time. This happens for many reasons. Exit nodes change etc. Just something to be aware of.

[SashaDesigN]

Oh ok, thanks for some complex answer)
And randomly IPs renewal isn't a bad thing for my app