How to strictly exclude exit nodes?

[Anon Mus]

Li-Hui Zhou wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:12:09 +0200
> Martin Balvers <m.balvers at addicts.nl> wrote:
>
>   
>> Li-Hui Zhou wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:19:24 -0700
>>> "F. Fox" <kitsune.or at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>>>> When choosing nodes to *use* exclusively, this line has to be added, in
>>>> addition to the ExitNodes line:
>>>>
>>>> StrictExitNodes 1
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> There's no such options right now.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>> There is, see http://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en for details.
>>     
>
> If it's StrictExitNodes option that your're talking, I think it only
> applied when there's specific exit nodes with option ExitNodes. I'm not
> sure if it's working with blacklist set by ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes.
>
> BTW, there's a warn with StrictExitNodes 1
>
> [warn] StrictExitNodes set, but no ExitNodes listed.
>
>
>   
I was using Tor stable install (v0.2.0.30 (r15956)) & Vidalia 0.1.8
on win2k and ExcludeNodes does not appear to work.

(or-talk "TOR v0.2.0.30 (r15956) - ExcludeNodes appears to fail" August 
25th 2008)

Maybe the problem is related.

Curiously, I have also seen three instances 4 hops circuits and a single 
instance of a 5 hop circuit built, according to vidalia's connection 
map. Also all 4 circuits had a a curious IP address target with a 
UID:443 port exit node, when I was not requesting any traffic!

Not sure quite what to make of it.

Am I trojaned, with a special version of TOR, that does 4 and 5 hop 
circuits when it dials home?


-K-