Tor Strictnodes not working

Question

StrictNodes1
ExitNodes {us}

Is no longer working for me after the new update. It seems like it works sometimes and doesn't sometimes. Each time the circuit gets rebuilt I end up in a non-US exit node. No one has been able to figure this out.

I checked the post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13422099/tor-strictexitnodes-is-not-working

I tried to add -f from the command prompt and point to the torrc file. It doesn't work, all it does is try to load that file in the browser.

Answer 1

You need to make sure it is StrictNodes 1 (<-- With a space before the '1')

This is the relevant section in the Tor documentation: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#StrictNodes

Answer 2

You must be sure that the following options are set :

GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1
StrictNodes 1
ExitNodes {us}
AllowSingleHopCircuits 0
EnforceDistinctSubnets 1