Time Warner bad / VPS recommendations

[John Brooks]

No. Aside from the Family option (which aims to help prevent multiple nodes
operated by the same person or group from being used in a circuit, with
their cooperation), Tor will not choose similar IPs. Three IPs at the same
provider would probably be pretty similar (same /24 or /16), and tor would
avoid using only those. I believe it also takes the country into account
using the geoip stuff, but i'm not certain of that.

Anyway, point is, automated methods are used to avoid putting your entire
circuit into the same hands, and there is always the statistical
probability. There are a lot of legitimate nodes; you'd need to run a huge
number to get any notable chance of having an entire circuit, and they'd
have to be distinct IPs and so forth.

 - John Brooks

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Marco Bonetti <marco.bonetti at slackware.it>wrote:

> On Wed, February 4, 2009 23:37, Scott Bennett wrote:
> > Is it possible to get a three-hop circuit using relays that are
> ostensibly
> > being operated by different individuals, but which are all running on the
> > same physical machine because the operators all subscribe to the same
> > company's hosting service?
> I think so :-/
> There're the *Family options but they require to list each other nodes.
>
> ciao
>
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