Questions tagged [exit-relays]
Questions related to running, and maintaining exit relays
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Can I exit from a specific country or node?
Lets say I want to get Netflix to work via Tor. Currently I keep pressing "new identity" until my traffic is exiting from a country supported by Netflix. I use Tor bridges to access the network.
Is ...
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Does running the Tor browser turn me into a (exit) relay?
If the person downloads the Tor Browser and uses it to surf the Internet, is this person also automatically running a Tor exit node or a Tor relay? Or other nodes?
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How reliable is setting an exit via country code?
In torrc, you can select exit nodes by country code (https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#ChooseEntryExit) - how reliable is that selection? Could a malicious (or simply poorly-configured) ...
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Tor on linux - how to select exit nodes manually
On windows, there is an application called Advanced Onion Router (or, AdvTOR) which lets you choose your tor exit nodes, and it lists them all out. This is great, because some exit nodes have ...
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IP address in specific city
Do I have the ability to choose an exit IP Address at city-level? I need my IP address to show as Phoenix, Arizona. How do I chose that location for an IP Address?
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What common sites are known to be troublesome for Tor use?
Certain sites block traffic from known exit nodes, and some sites simply show a CAPTCHA due to excessive abuse, etc.
Is there a list of websites known to be troublesome for visitors using Tor?
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Can Tor nodes know their position in the circuit?
It is documented which node knows what.
I'm wondering if the nodes in the circuit know their own relative position. For normal three relay paths, they certainly can infer their position: the exit ...
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How can Tor users and Tor Network protect themselves from an exit node that is actively logging or manipulating exit traffic?
Tor Exit nodes are the last hop in the circuit a Tor client establishes to reach a service in the Internet. Exit nodes handle the actual traffic of the client, either it's encrypted or not.
That ...
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How can I get a relay's fingerprint?
I recently checked https://check.torproject.org/ and noticed Atlas to get information for the exit node.
I want to craft and directly open the url for the relay without going through the Tor Project ...
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Need a step by step to run a relay on Windows
I've looked at https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en
Not enough detail in there for me to go ahead. E.g. ...
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Tor's configuration file is named 'torrc'.
Locate the file on your ...
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Iterate through List of Exitnodes
I am working on some kind of Exitnode Scanner (Like SoaT from Mike Perry).
I have downloaded the list of all running Exitnode-IPs and I want to use each IP to build a 3-hop-circuit (or connect ...
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Which exit node providers can I financially support to run nodes on my behalf?
This blog post from 2011 mentions a few organisations that accept donations to run Tor exit nodes. What all organisations are there that accept donations to run exit nodes on my behalf?
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When I click "New Identity", why do I sometimes end up with the same exit relay?
Three variants on the same question:
If I click "new identity" in Tor Browser to get a new circuit, why does my new circuit sometimes have the same exit relay as the last circuit? Doesn't that hurt ...
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What specifically causes an Exit to get a Bad Exit flag?
The consensus includes details of exits that are flagged as "Bad Exits".
What are the specific conditions under which the Bad Exit flag is given to an exit?
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Good DNS services for exit nodes
Open DNS and others hijack failed DNS lookups. Some DNS services censor or block access to sites due to government or corporate coercion. Is there a list of preferred DNS servers, ones that don't ...
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How is data sent back from exit node to me?
I understand how the client sends the data through Tor to the sever. Onion routing
Basically, it selects a set of nodes to form a circuit, say nodeA nodeB nodeC.
It then encrypts the data this way:
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What can I do to reduce risk of malicious traffic leaving my exit relay besides setting the exit policy?
I am considering running an exit relay. Unfortunately this opens possibility of legal issues and traffic restrictions from my Internet Service Provider. See Abuse FAQ and Legal FAQ.
There is a nice ...
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May I do security inspection on exit relays?
If I decide to run an exit relay may I run security inspection (Intrusion Prevention System, anti-spam, anti-malware etc.) on the traffic leaving the Tor network? Would this be considered legally and ...
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What are the minimum amount of nodes traffic passes through?
Is there a minimum amount of nodes traffic goes through before reaching it's destination?
To my understanding of Tor, every node increases the effectiveness of the encrypted communication.
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Setting the country of the tor ExitNodes
I'm having some trouble in setting the country of the tor exit nodes. Following this link, by adding the bellow entries to the ./Data/torrc
ExitNodes {ru}
StrictNodes 1
an exit node from the ...
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Is it possible to know which entry node, middle node, and exit node one is using while using TBB?
Is it possible to know which entry node, middle node, and exit node one is using while using TBB online. Also, be informed as node changes or additional nodes being added online while using TBB.
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How to create a private exit node?
I would like to create an private exit node that only I have access, it will be set on my personal computer, then plan to create "exit node" to relatives who live USA and France so I can have a fully ...
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Use only specifics exit nodes for a site
In torrc, using AllowDotExit and MapAddress I can specify only one exit node for "mysite.com".
For example with:
AllowDotExit 1
MapAddress mysite.com mysite.com.mynode.exit
With ExitNodes and ...
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Where does tor look for directory servers?
I'm working on a project and need to determine how tor determines directory authorities. Looking at the source of version 0.2.8.0-alpha-dev (git-d015c70a118e4357) in file or/config.c there are a ...
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Accessing Tor hidden services over a single hop circuit
I will presage the expected warnings before posting my question: I fully understand the security risks involved using single hops, however, with regards to my goals I have zero need for anonymity.
I ...
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What is the risk of guard relay and exit relay being one and the same?
Looking at the circuits build for a client during a Tor process, I have noticed the following:
Four circuits were built.
On the first circuit the guard node was a1.
On the second circuit the exit ...
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What are Tor Node Selection Rules?
What are the rules by which Tor Proxies select entry, exit, and middle nodes from the list of Tor nodes? Where is this implemented in the source code?
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How to bypass sites that blocks tor?
Tor has many mechanisms for obfuscating its traffic to prevent packet inspection. The "meek" pluggable transport helps to hide this deep packet inspection and hide it as https traffic. (This works ...
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Is exit node able to modify / add packets to a stream?
Is it possible for an exit node to modify the data stream of a circuit, for example could a cell such as a padding cell be send down the stream after the data have been transmitted ?
I am thinking ...
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Too much Not anonim Exit Nodes on the TOR Network!
Many exit nodes are not anonym. It says "Hi I'm a Proxy Or Hi I'm a Tor Exit Node on host name". Here is a test site: http://ipcim.com/hu/.
Host names:
TOR-EXIT.CYLAB.CMU.EDU
sipb-tor.mit.edu
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Is my ISP throttling the bandwidth of my Tor relay?
I am operating a Tor relay (OR) as an exit on a 10 MB/s speed network. But when checking from atlas.torproject.org, it shows only 1 MB/s Advertised Bandwidth. Is it that my ISP is throttling my ...
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What is the risk of Guard-Exit node in Tor compare to Guard and exit node separately?
It appears that having Guard-Exit node in Tor increase the probability of deanonymizing the client compare to Guard and exit node separately. To put it in a nutshell if a node at times could become ...
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How do I restrict exit to one country while running under Tails [2.6]?
I recognize that the first part of this question resembles others here, but those answers DO NOT appear to work! If you wish to combine this with Can I exit from a specific country or node?, fine.
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Is there any Legal Issues with Tor in Brazil?
In Brazil, your ISP, according to the law, must keep a track of the connections you do with your IP address from your network. This track is used to prove that "you" (or someone using your WiFi, or ...
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Making Data Transactions Ambiguous
I just signed up on the TOR StackExchange. Let me preface my question by warning everybody that I am not a technical expert and apologizing in advance if some of my assumptions are incorrect or naive.
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Can't watch BBC iPlayer content despite UK IP
BBC iPlayer content can be watched in UK only. I added this to torrc file:
ExitNodes {gb}
StrictNodes 1
GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1
AllowSingleHopCircuits 0
When I check my IP it always locates it in UK, ...
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