[tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

[Moritz Bartl]

On 12.04.2013 13:33, Matt Joyce wrote:
>>> I assume you mean firewall-based blocking? You could have simply rejected
>>> those IPs via ExitPolicy (see "man tor"). That's a clear-cut way to tell the
>>> network you don't accept connections to those IPs, and no risk of being
>>> labeled a BadExit.
>> The latter.  I dont know if it complicates routing decisions in the Tor
>> network to have lots of ip address exceptions at the exits...
> It possibly does slightly but we are talking about the sort of
> "complication" that a modern CPU can resolve in timescales short enough
> I doubt it would make that much difference especially if hash tables
> were used 

That's not the issue here. You don't want to make the "routing table"
(consensus and descriptors) that every Tor client needs to have too
large. Users in developing countries, on mobile connections or generally
instable connections already have issues.

-- 
Moritz Bartl
https://www.torservers.net/