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Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory

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Subject: Re: 25 tbreg relays in directory
From: Edward Langenback <apostle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:47:23 -0500
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Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:09:25 +0800 Pei Hanru <peihanru@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> On 2009-04-27 18:27 CST, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>>      torstatus currently shows 25 different relays that are all named "tbreq"
>>> and appear to be in China.  I wonder whether these are due to some benighted

snip

>> I've downloaded the software and tested, the version of Tor in it is
>> indeed 0.2.1.2-alpha, torrc in it is
> 
>      Ouch.  This provides another example in support of having a way for
> the directory authorities to render insecure versions inoperable/unusable
> as relays to the rest of the network and only usable as clients to connect
> to the tor project's web site to download a current version of tor.

How about simply take a page from Freenet?  Each new build of Freenet
comes with a "lastGoodVersion=" variable that contains the version
number of the oldest build it's willing to talk to.

Nodes older than that can't connect to the network for anything except
updating the out of date node.


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