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In my venture to find more ISPs to house Tor Exit nodes I have recently set up a node in Switzerland (Private Layer - 179.43.160.41). When running Tor 6 out of 9 Authdirs are rejecting the node:

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May 12 20:31:02.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '86.59.21.38:80'. Please correct. May 12 20:31:02.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '131.188.40.189:80'. Please correct. May 12 20:31:02.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '171.25.193.9:443'. Please correct. May 12 20:31:02.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '208.83.223.34:443'. Please correct. May 12 20:31:02.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '199.254.238.52:80'. Please correct. May 12 20:32:04.000 [warn] http status 400 ("Authdir is rejecting routers in this range.") response from dirserver '154.35.175.225:80'. Please correct.

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I looked through the mailing lists and blog posts to find out if this range was mentioned somewhere to see why it gets rejected but I could not find anything.

Can anyone shed some light on why this range would be blocked and if there is any chance it will get accepted again in the near future?

Best regards,

- -- Tim Semeijn Babylon Network pgp 0x5B8A4DDF