When is the 'MyFamily' setting unnecessary?

[Sebastian Hahn]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 1:24 PM, tor_ml wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm curious in which cases tor would _never_ use certain nodes to  
> create one circuit and therefore makes the 'MyFamily' setting  
> unnecessary.
>
> I heard only of one "rule" (I guess on this list but I'm not sure):
> - tor would not use nodes within the same /16 network to create a  
> circuit
>
> are there more such rules?

There currently aren't.

Even if all the nodes you run are in the same /16 it is considered
polite to set MyFamily though, to make the link of owners explicit.

Sebastian

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