On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:41:17 +1100 teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
But no wonder they are having trouble if they are just using the consensus: it only contains ORPort/DirPort IP addresses.
No no, that was just me thinking about how they could/should go about it. I just meant, some form of downloading the entire list, instead of checking one-by-one via TorDNSEL.
If the consensus doc shouldn't be used for this, what should? Just https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses? I assumed lists like these were gathered from network-status-consensus or something.
And Exits are free to use another IP as their OutboundBindAddress, so some of the Tor exit lists check by actually making a connection through the Exit.
Are these not advertised anywhere, and not reflected in TorDNSEL/exit-addresses? Is the only way to get a "real" list of exit IPs then to connect through each exit? If so, that indeed is much more cumbersome than I thought.