I have a small node app that makes requests via Tor. My goal is to have a different exit IP for every request. in the `torrc` configuration file one can set `MaxCircuitDirtiness 10`, which will make it change exit ip every 10 seconds. [This is the minimum value that can be imposed.][1] However, if I want to make 1 request/second, this is not enough. [So I am figuring out how to configure & run multiple tor servers such that I have different exit IPs, which is already discussed here.][2] But it just doesn't seem to work. Someone already mentions this in a comment on the accepted answer. I have followed all steps: I have in my case 4 torrc files with seperate ports, 4 datadirectories (permissions are fixed), I start 4 different Tor servers all loading different config files. I wrote a small app in nodejs to show that it doesn't work. var Agent = require('socks5-https-client/lib/Agent'); var request = require('request'); var cheerio = require('cheerio'); var url = "https://check.torproject.org/" function makereq(port){ request({ url: url, strictSSL: true, agentClass: Agent, agentOptions: { socksHost: '127.0.0.1', socksPort: port } }, function(err, res) { if (err == null){ $ = cheerio.load(res.body) var ip = $('p strong').text() console.log("Request through PORT " + port + " with EXIT IP "+ ip) } else { console.log("Something went wrong") console.log(err) } }); } var ports = [9050, 9060, 9070, 9080]; counter = 0 setInterval(function(){ makereq(ports[counter]) counter++ if (counter == ports.length){ counter = 0 } }, 1000) Naturally, my question: how do I get this set-up to work? How do I get different exit IPs for seperate Tor servers? For completeness, one of the `torrc` files # 10 seconds is the shortest refresh time allowed by Tor. MaxCircuitDirtiness 10 # puts a listener on localhost:9050 SOCKSPort 9050 ControlPort 9051 DataDirectory /var/lib/tor_0 # some policies of which I dont know they are important SOCKSPolicy accept 192.168.0.0/16 SOCKSPolicy accept 127.0.0.0/8 SOCKSPolicy accept6 FC00::/7 SOCKSPolicy reject * [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5259 [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14321214/how-to-run-multiple-tor-processes-at-once-with-different-exit-ips