<div>No. Aside from the Family option (which aims to help prevent multiple nodes operated by the same person or group from being used in a circuit, with their cooperation), Tor will not choose similar IPs. Three IPs at the same provider would probably be pretty similar (same /24 or /16), and tor would avoid using only those. I believe it also takes the country into account using the geoip stuff, but i'm not certain of that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, point is, automated methods are used to avoid putting your entire circuit into the same hands, and there is always the statistical probability. There are a lot of legitimate nodes; you'd need to run a huge number to get any notable chance of having an entire circuit, and they'd have to be distinct IPs and so forth.</div>
<br clear="all"> - John Brooks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Marco Bonetti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco.bonetti@slackware.it">marco.bonetti@slackware.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, February 4, 2009 23:37, Scott Bennett wrote:<br>
> Is it possible to get a three-hop circuit using relays that are ostensibly<br>
> being operated by different individuals, but which are all running on the<br>
> same physical machine because the operators all subscribe to the same<br>
> company's hosting service?<br>
</div>I think so :-/<br>
There're the *Family options but they require to list each other nodes.<br>
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