On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, The Doctor <dr...@virtadpt.net> wrote: > As I understand it, Tor nodes know IP addresses one up and one down in > a circuit. I haven't read through the Tor codebase in a while (two or > three years), so my question is this: Does Tor apply the same family > avoidance check when picking nodes to avoid routing traffic through, > say, two nodes on the same /16? In other words, would Tor do this: > > 192.168.1.23 -> 172.16.23.93 -> 10.0.61.44 > > ..or would this be a possible scenario: > > 192.168.1.23 -> 172.16.23.93 -> 192.168.88.77 > > (Reference: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ, > section "Which Tor node knows what?" (which seems to need a link in > the ToC))
>From https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/path-spec.txt: "We do not choose more than one router in a given /16 subnet (unless EnforceDistinctSubnets is 0)." -- Runa A. Sandvik _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
