Hi Pascal,
On 05 Dec 2014, at 04:26, Pascal Pascal666@Users.SourceForge.Net wrote:
On 12/4/2014 3:50 PM, Sebastian Hahn wrote:
No, that's a local choice by the relay and it will prevent exiting to IPs that it disallows in its config.
Yes, but does it have a way of telling clients that so they will use a different exit for those IPs? Vladimir's original question was about not marking Russian nodes as bad exits just because they can't get to certain IPs.
This influences path selection on the client without too good a reason, it also increases complexity on the dirauths even more. It would also mean yet larger consensuses to make these results public. Not a good plan.
I found the bug I was thinking of: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1774
It's old, but still open. I don't know if the microdescriptor format has been extended since then, but nickm states rather plainly that microdescriptors do not support excluding specific IPs.
This is a misunderstanding. It just means that clients don't know that a relay doesn't allow exiting to an individual IP address. The relay in question will still disallow the request to exit there.
Cheers Sebastian