Setup Directory Server

Eric C soccerislander at gmail.com
Tue May 15 21:43:28 UTC 2007


I agree with you and I am /not/ trying to set up an authoritative directory
server. I wanted to know how to setup a directory server just to see how it
all fits in. Thanks for the quick replies all.

On 5/15/07, Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing at gmx.net> wrote:
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> > From what I understand, you can start your own dir server if you email
> > the other dir servers and ask them to trust you. Unless you show
> > drastically different results there's no reason for them not to.
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> Nope, no way! You can run a directory *mirror* by storing and forwarding
> the directory information of authoritative directories to clients. But
> you cannot simply run your own authoritative directory server and write
> an email to the Tor ops so that they trust you and add you to the list
> of authoritative directories. The anonymity of Tor relies to a certain
> extent on the trustworthiness of the directories. If you (and your
> friends) could control a majority of the directories and convince
> clients to use your own, potentially modified directory information, you
> could pass different router lists to different clients and defeat their
> anonymity by observing which routers they pick.
>
> - --Karsten
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