Hi On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 02:47:34PM +0200, Sebastian Hahn wrote: > Please note how long it takes for a Tor node to be used by clients,
How long is that? Are there any statistics about that? > I think this will produce a huge amount of overhead when > such nodes are sending their descriptors and others will try to use > them a few hours later, when they have been shut down again. This problem exists as soon as end-user's computers become Tor nodes. How is this solved currently? Are all Tor nodes servers with high uptimes? > They don't want a plugin that does arbitrary things they don't > quite understand. We will see. We don't insist on having a browser plugin. > If you find a good solution for how to make use of Tor relays behind > restrictive firewalls, that'd be most awesome, but I think such an > approach should be included in the Tor software. Well, until now I think my proposed solution could work. > Note that currently, any relay must be able to connect to any other > relay. Client-exit nodes are no normal relays. They have no incoming connections. They are simply the log scapegoats for the pseudo-exit nodes. cu -- Alexander Bernauer