On Jan 31, 2008 10:57 AM, Jackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Tor identify each node by their nickname? or are nicknames of tor nodes > are unique (cannot be duplicate)? but when you see > http://torstatus.kgprog.com/, you will find many tor nodes with the same > nickname "unnamed". I am puzzled that how to distinguish these nodes? If I > add "ExcludeNodes unnamed" to my torrc, which node on earth would be > excluded ???
Nicknames are not guaranteed to be unique. I would avoid using the nickname for ExcludeNodes. The true unique identifier is the fingerprint. To find out the fingerprint of a node: - Find out the IP address of the node. - Browse through the "cached-descriptors" file in your Tor configuration directory, and locate the line starting with "router" and containing the node's IP address. - Several lines down, you should see a line like this "opt fingerprint 0123 4567 89AB CDEF 0123 4567 89AB CDEF 0123 4567". The hex string is the fingerprint of the node. - To name a node by fingerprint, you add a prefix "$" to the hex string. For the above fingerprint, the node's name would be "$0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF01234567". - To exclude the node above, the torrc line would be "ExcludeNodes $0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF01234567". Cheers, John
