Re: Is switching IP addresses regularly beneficial as exit node?

["Michael G. Reed" <reed@xxxxxxxx>]

	It won't work - all you will do is turn it into an arms race
of changing your IP one step ahead of them blacklisting your IP.  If
someone wants to block it, they're going to block it....intrinsic to
the system is the fact that everyone knows all exit nodes - you need
to in order to build circuits, so all someone needs to do is make an
auto-fetcher to get the list and populate the blacklist off of it.
	Worse, they may just get fed up and block your whole provider
network or a block of it.  Really, this isn't going to be productive.

-Michael

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Ringo Kamens wrote:
|> I think this would help us out a lot if it could work. Perhaps you
|> could get a dydns address, submit that to the dir servers, and then
|> change it when your IP changes.
|> Comrade Ringo Kamens
|> 
|> On 9/21/06, Blackbeard <blackbeardtor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> > I was considering that sometimes Toris banned or otherwise
|> > tracked by some of the services which end users make use of.  Would it
|> > be beneficial for me to change the IP address at a regular interval in
|> > order to help prevent this banning or blocking?
|> >
|> > I imagine that a negative of doing this would be a period of time
|> > where the directory would be wrong, thus my exit node being
|> > unreachable for a period of time until updated.  Also perhaps it is
|> > better that other sites are able to block the exit nodes from using
|> > their services.
|> >
|> > Any thoughts from veteren exit node operators or developers on this one?