Directory servers for a subset of Tor routers

Ringo Kamens 2600denver at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 18:01:30 UTC 2007


You would need an external application in order to do that. Would you
be doing this on Windows or *Nix?
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On 8/5/07, nobledark at hushmail.com <nobledark at hushmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Comrade - so blocking connections from other countries...is
> that something that is built into Tor or would I need a 3rd party
> solution? I think i already saw how to prevent the dir server from
> advertising itself to the rest of the Tor network in the man pages
> (yeah, really wouldn't want to screw anyone else up) but not so
> sure on the geographical part.
>
> Thanks again...
>
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:25:59 -0400 Ringo Kamens
> <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I think this is possible with a little hacking of the code. If you
> >don't want to make you own version of tor (a bad idea to begin
> >with)
> >you could run an authoritative dir server and then just block
> >connections to certain countries. Just make sure you configure
> >your
> >server NOT to advertise that information to other directories.
> >Comrade Ringo Kamens
> >
> >On 8/4/07, nobledark at hushmail.com <nobledark at hushmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Question, is it possible to set up private directory servers and
> >> make available only a portion of the available Tor routers? For
> >> example, if you only wanted to make routers that were online in
> >the
> >> U.K. or France available to users who got their info from these
> >dir
> >> servers, can that be done?
> >>
> >> I know you can set entry and exit nodes but this only addresses
> >> part of the question and is too static for this example. I've
> >seen
> >> some info on Blossom but don't know if that will do it either.
> >If
> >> it can't be done or there are other problems, does anyone have
> >any
> >> other ideas or suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks...
> >>
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