TOR on Academic networks (problem)

[Watson Ladd]

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On May 16, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Michael Holstein wrote:
>
>> For the short-term, I wrote a script that wgets the library's list of
>> subscriptions, and munges that to get the unique domain links, and  
>> puts
>> those into /etc/hosts with bogus addresses that are denied by the  
>> exit
>> policy (eg: 127.0.0.2 some.domain). Yes, I realize this doesn't  
>> prevent
>> access by IP, but if I can keep out 95% of the miscreants, that's  
>> fine
>> by me.
>
> You are hurting the Tor network more than you realize.  You are  
> lying to
> clients and clients cache that answer.  Don't do this.
>
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The correct way is to put the IP's in a deny list in the config file.

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd
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