On 2007-1-13 4:44 CST(UTC+8), Mike Perry wrote: >> I live in China and was/am having difficulties in using Tor, the problem >> is: it takes quite a long time to build a circuit for the first time I >> start Tor on my Windows machine. >> >> Am I understanding correctly? Are there any actions Tor can take? After >> all, we cannot simply assume this will not happen in the future. > > If the problem right now is just IP blocking you can try the tor > option HttpProxy which will route your dirserver traffic through an > http proxy you specify. Unfortunately, certain areas have begun > blocking by the /tor/ url postfix that dirservers use, independent of > IP. There is an option in 1.2.x/SVN to tunnel this traffic via other > tor nodes (via SSL), but I believe it is prone to exploding at this > point in time.
Actually, no IP is blocked at this time, it is due to a natural disaster. :( It's interesting to evaluate whether the option you mentioned will defend the attack (that is, blocking all directory authorities), in that setting, there's no living network-status, how to find "other tor nodes"? Manually importing required files is an idea, but, it's not that elegant and finding up-to-date files is a problem. I'm curious on more details. :) Thanks, Hanru
