Thus spake Theodore Bagwell (torus...@imap.cc): > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:54 -0800, "Mike Perry" <mikepe...@fscked.org> > wrote: > > Rather than cripple the network by forcing more clients to use slower > > nodes more often, we have opted to try to document the process of > > running a high capacity Tor exit node: > > http://archives.seul.org/tor/relays/Aug-2010/msg00034.html > > In my research (posted earlier to this list), I did not find an issue > with exit relays. The relays which were reliably chosen as part of my > circuit were often the first or second relay in my circuit - not the > exit relay.
In this case, you are experiencing your guard nodes. This is a protective measure where the Tor client remembers a set of 3 live nodes and tries to use them for up to 2 months for its 1st hop... This is done to protect against a wide variety of traffic analysis attacks. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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