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Re: Filtering traffic from your node - for exit points



On 9/11/07, Torified User <torified00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anthony DiPierro <or@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Or run an exit node which exits only to itself, then run a
> > > filtering proxy service which is reachable through that exit node.
> > >
> > > If enough people did that, we could build a separately directory of
> > > such services, and anyone using it would take load off the exit
> > > nodes (and maybe get a faster browsing experience to boot?).
> > Are there instructions somewhere on how to go about that?
> Not that I know of. I basically came up with it myself.
>
> Not sure this can be done. The problem lies that you'd have to preselect an
> outgoing .exit before this would be feasible.

I thought this was handled by "exit enclaves".  See
http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Aug-2005/msg00162.html

> The only solution re:
> filtering or not filtering lies in having a separate directory server for
> filtered exit points. (as far as I can tell).
>
Well, yeah, this would handle the "directory server" mechanism
completely outside of Tor.  You'd have to specifically set up privoxy
to connect to those filtering proxy services through tor.