[tor-dev] How many exits exit from an IP address different than their OR address? (10.7%)

Virgil Griffith i at virgil.gr
Thu Jan 14 03:05:49 UTC 2016


In our quantifications of relay diversity, knowing the IP addresses that
traffic exits from is important. Ways to have this information correctly
reported would be very helpful.

-V
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 03:01 grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:27 AM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> ... only question is who would have a
> >>> compelling use for separating outbound OR connections and outbound
> >>> Exit traffic, as per #17975?
> >>
> >> Bandwidth peering contracts preferential to push or eyeball traffic.
>
> > outbound bind address. Exit binding as distinct option might be
> > useful, yet no one has defined a reasonable scenario for such utility.
>
> another reason could be separating the exitIP as
> sacrificial on abuse complaint and/or set in a freeforall dmz,
> where orIP may more neutral and/or long term.
>
> don't know if anyone has deployed on any of these potential reasons.
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