Why would the Field Effect appliance need to access Tor?

You may see entries in your Firewall logs that your Field Effect appliance is trying to access torproject.org [wiki]


Your Field Effect appliance isn't trying to use Tor, but actually using the reference https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses in order to poll and retrieve the latest list of Tor IPs to add to it's internal blocklist.

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