Re: Very strange exit-node? Bad or evil exit-node?

[James Brown <jbrownfirst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:08:09AM +0000, James Brown wrote:
>   
>> The exit-node   which have ip 192.251.226.206 and named
>> anonymizer2.blutmagie.de behaves itself as probably an evil exit-node.
>> I can't change it practically at all. When I give command "pkill -1 tor"
>> to my system many times it remains as my exit-node.
>> Futhermore, it remains as my exit node when I restart my tor-daemon
>> through /etc/init.d/tor restart.
>> I can change it only by restarting my local network router and my
>> tor-daemon at the same time, but in one or two minutes I can see that
>> that tor-node become as my exit-node again.
>> How can I to overcome that?!
>>     
>
> The way you overcome that is you get more people to run fast exit relays
> for the Tor network.
>
> Right now not enough people do, so you end up using blutmagie a lot.
>
> The Tor network is a community, and it sure does need to grow if it wants
> to handle all the people who want safety around the world.
>
> --Roger
>
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Very thanks for that information.
I was very afraid and it seemed to me that anybody took control over the
Tor net, but it was only my paranoia.

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