I had planned to upgrade my node from 0.2.2.14-alpha this evening to 0.2.2.15-alpha, but there is an unfortunate and apparently gratuitous, new restriction upon "ExcludeNodes" and "ExcludeExitNodes" that, for the moment at least, is preventing me from upgrading. I have a rather long list of nodes that I have found undesirable in ways that justify (to me, at least, and my opinion rules on my node) their inclusion in one or the other of those lists. After building 0.2.2.15-alpha and installing it, I ran the usual "tor --verify-config" as a basic test. Surprise! It issued many messages of each of the following types:
Sep 10 01:15:29.753 [warn] Option 'ExcludeExitNodes' used more than once; all but the last value will be ignored. Sep 10 01:15:29.753 [warn] Option 'ExcludeNodes' used more than once; all but the last value will be ignored. There is no way that I can fit all of the excluded nodes of each type onto a single line for each type in my torrc. Also, my torrc is full of comment lines documenting the reasons for these exclusions in each case, which allows me to review certain ones from time to time for possible removal from whichever list they are on and also to know which ones should never be removed. Even if an editor were available that could handle line lengths great enough to allow placement of each entire list onto a single line in torrc, the comments would have to be left out or made useless by being separated from the corresponding node identifiers. The upshot is that I cannot upgrade to a version of tor that has this new and seemingly unnecessary change. :-( This is especially irritating at the moment, given that 0.2.2.14-alpha has a bug that causes it from time to time to drastically miscalculate the cutoff time for building new circuits. For example, a couple of days ago, it suddenly changed from cutoff times on the order of 12 to 14 seconds to cutoff times ranging from 130 to 300 seconds. To the developers: please fix the next release of -alpha to allow the use of multiple ExcludeExitNodes and ExcludeNodes lines again. Thank you. 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/