Re: Excluding domains

["anon ymous" <a.y.main.contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/15/08, John Kimble <det.j.kimble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanthanaël <lanthanael@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We have a litlle bit missunderstanding. What I mean is that Tor don't
> > use this circuits and that I don't have to configure my browser to don't
> > use Tor for this domains. Tor shoud be able to drop away connections
> > with this domain endings.
> >
> In that case, your only option right now is to exclude those nodes by
> hand using "ExcludeNodes ..." in torrc.
>
> The process of finding out which nodes to exclude can be automated
> somewhat by writing your own script that inspects the
> "cached-consensus" file in your tor config directory (assuming you're
> using v0.2.0.x), and the "geoip-cache" file in the Vidalia config
> directory. I have supplied a sample of just such a script before:
> <http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2008/msg00469.html>
>
> I won't count on a similar feature being built into Tor in the
> forseeable future; reducing the pool of possible nodes is bad for
> anonymity.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>