Hi, On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jackie wrote:
> I intend to get a router list, so I investigate some temporary files of > tor.(My OS is windows vista). Still have some questions needing your help. > > 1.C:\Users\sunchao\AppData\Roaming\Vidalia\geoip-cache (sunchao is my user > name) > Content of this file as follows: > 91.49.126.183,,,DE,51.0000,9.0000:1201672296 > 84.44.133.225,Cologne,07,DE,50.9333,6.9500:1201568891 > 84.157.197.178,,,DE,51.0000,9.0000:1201412847 > 77.181.84.222,Bad Salzuflen,07,DE,52.0833,8.7667:1201672296 > I think it is not router list for some routers' nickname cannot be found > here. What is it? like the file says by its name, its the Vidalia Geo IP Cache, in longer words: its a file where vidalia stores the location of routers and destinations, because getting the location is expensive, this information is cached. > 2. C:\Users\sunchao\AppData\Roaming\tor\cached-routers > I think it may be the router list stored locally, Two questions: first, how > can I distinguish normal nodes from exit nodes? second, what does "reject > *:*" mean? those accept and reject lines define the exit policy, look at: http://www.torproject.org/tor-manual.html.en there is no flag for a tor server "i'm a exit node", "i'm a middle man", tor simply fetches for all servers the exit policy and trys to find a node which allows your kind of service, this node becomes _your_ exit node for this connection. > 3. cached-descriptors (in the same directory as the above one) is similar to > cached-routers, I don't know what's difference between them? > > Others files such as cached-certs, cached-consensus, if anyone knows what's > their meanings and functions? plz let me know. > Thanks with my best regards!!! a look at the manual .. http://www.torproject.org/tor-manual-dev.html.en section: "FILES" -- Florian Reitmeir
