Nodes in the same ISP? - was: When placing nodes in a family is appropriate

[Sebastian Hahn]

On May 31, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Marco Predicatori wrote:
> Along this line, I was wondering how to deal with tor nodes owned by
> different persons but hosted by the same ISP. This gives the ISP the
> power to correlate traffic betwen his hosted nodes. Does Tor make
> any guess about the nodes being in the same IP range, or would it be
> a good idea to try to agree with other owners to specify a family
> together? As a matter of fact I happen to share the same ISP with
> four other nodes, with which I have no relation.

Tor won't use nodes from the same /16 in one circuit. It doesn't make
other guesses wrt jurisdiction or AS transfer, though.

Sebastian