Re: Tor Nodes
Posted by Tryingtohelp on 2010-04-23 06:38:30, FridayIn reply to Tor Nodes posted by chickpeas on 2010-04-21 22:00:04, Wednesday
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First: I am tired and sleepy and I don't write this very well. What operation system are you using? This is for Windows. Open the file called torrc - it has no extension. It is either in your C:\Program Files\Vidalia Bundle\Tor folder or, if you are using the latest Vidalia bundle, in your C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Application Data\Vidalia The wisest thing is to right-click on it and then "Send" it to Notepad. In torrc file, you see lines ControlPort 9051 # A list of nodes never to use when building a circuit. Type the following command immediately after below those commands: ExcludeNodes Blahserver,node2_nickname,sgdfs4fsddf,usa-spy,die_pedo-node,blahblaaanode If a node has just the "nick" Unnamed, this does not help. Then you must find the fingerprint of that node. You can find it either here https://torstatus.kgprog.com/ (I hope this site still works) or in the file C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Application Data\Tor\cached-descriptors . After you have found the fingerprint, you delete the spaces and precede thie fingerprint with "$", this way: $118f8076ee23121733af99782c3d5df70fc44889,$165e2bf52000589aa264211eb887a471f87313e6,$17de7b69af1269381ccfb78067ac9cab0697c1e5 So the list after ExcludeNodes would look like this so far: ExcludeNodes Blahserver,node2_nickname,sgdfs4fsddf,usa-spy,die_pedo-node,blahblaaanode,$118f8076ee23121733af99782c3d5df70fc44889,$165e2bf52000589aa264211eb887a471f87313e6,$17de7b69af1269381ccfb78067ac9cab0697c1e5 The list can be as long as you want, but do not exclude too many nodes, otherwise your connection gets slower. There are no spaces in the list, only one space after "ExcludeNodes" but no spaces after that, and all items are separated from each other by a comma. And you do not press Enter at any point of that list. And in the latest Vidalia version there is one more command, you probably put it before ExcludeNodes (in this example you exclude all nodes from France, JUST an example): ExcludeNodes {fr} ExcludeNodes Blahserver,node2_nickname,etc... Disclaimer: I don't have much experience about that ExcludeNodes {countrycode} command, I hope it works this way, in other words I hope you can use two successive ExcludeNodes commands. In the end, make sure that your torrc file works. Open Tor Network Map. If you are using the latest version with Polipo, your torrc file should be in application data etc. As I said, I am tired and I don't have strength to write more. Of course you also make sure that Notepad does not save your torrc as torrc.txt - then it would not work. |
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