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Re: [tor-dev] How many exits exit from an IP address different than their OR address? (10.7%)



On 01/11/2016 06:43 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> Also, there are several groups of exits whose OR addresses *are* in a
> related subnet, but which all exit through the same, unrelated, IP
> address. See for example 109.236.82.* (all exiting through
> 185.108.128.7), 178.17.171.* (all exiting through 37.48.65.71), and
> 217.23.11.* (all exiting through 85.17.31.120) in the table below.

This is quite interesting, thanks for the report. I'm not sure why it
would be advantageous to set up a server or network this way, but I
guess they have their reasons. Maybe those are part of a traffic
analysis setup, who knows.

As have probably concluded from your table, Tor directory authorities
allow up to two Tor nodes per IP address.

-- 
Jesse V

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