There's another bad exit on the loose. Its Nickname is "exoassist", and its fingerprint is "39A6 74F8 2BFB 0195 860C 04DD E0F3 6B60 C09D C72A". When trying to fetch a web page from www.fibrlink.net, I was surprised to get an error page back from someplace in Australia, beginning with "The requested URL could not be retrieved". I took a quick look at the log, made a guess at which exit it might be, and tried instead to fetch a web page from www.fibrlink.net.exoassist.exit. Once again, I got a web page that says, between the dotted lines that I've added as delimiters,
............................................................... The requested URL could not be retrieved ___________________________________________________________________ While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.fibrlink.net.exoassist.exit/ The following error was encountered: Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.fibrlink.net.exoassist.exit The dnsserver returned: Name Error: The domain name does not exist. This means that: The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL. Check if the address is correct. Your cache administrator is webmaster. ___________________________________________________________________ Generated Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:11:21 GMT by proxy2.hbt.bbw.net.au (squid/2.7.STABLE3) ............................................................... So it appears that a) there is a new tor client bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that leaves the "exoassist.exit" in the name passed along from its SOCKS listener to the destination port and b) "exoassist" is a bad exit that inserts a web page into the stream returned to the client when a connection cannot be made. I'll add exoassist to my ExcludeExitNodes list, but it should also be flagged ASAP by the authorities. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/