If I exclude Tor nodes using option ExcludeNodes, will it exclude also some Tor nodes select by options EntryNodes and ExitNodes?

Question

I have these options in my torrc file:

ExitNodes {at},{be},{bg},{ch},{cz},{cy},{de},{hk},{is},{jp},{lu},{nl},{no},{pa},{ro},{sc},{sk},{si},{ua},{vg}
EntryNodes {at},{be},{bg},{ch},{cz},{cy},{de},{hk},{is},{jp},{lu},{nl},{no},{pa},{ro},{sc},{sk},{si},{ua},{vg}
StrictNodes 1

And also an option to exclude nodes with low bandwidth (I wrote a [...] because the list is very long):

ExcludeNodes "$000a10d43011ea4928a35f610405f92b4433b4dc,$0011bd2485ad45d984ec4159c88fc066e5e3300e,$00152dfab972a3f8b08648e14a7b098cc29483e9,$00240ecb2b535aa4c1e1874d744dfa6af2e5e941,$00283b5564e3072dcddab31d6ef622dd49bf524f,$0036fa36ab435fd5d0f640626636867ebfb72c68,[...]"

Let's suppose that some relays specified by ExcludeNodes is of a country selected by options ExitNodes and EntryNodes.

/\ In this case, will option ExcludeNodes exclude these exit nodes even if they are matched by options ExitNodes and EntryNodes?

Answer 1

From the man page:

EntryNodes node,node,...

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The ExcludeNodes option overrides this option: any node listed in both EntryNodes and ExcludeNodes is treated as excluded.

[...]

ExitNodes node,node,...

[...]

The ExcludeNodes option overrides this option: any node listed in both ExitNodes and ExcludeNodes is treated as excluded.

[...]

Also note that using StrictNodes 1 and a long list of ExcludeNodes will prevent you from accessing some onion services.