[tor-bugs] #7610 [- Select a component]: Will not Exit to New Zealand

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#7610: Will not Exit to New Zealand
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    Reporter:  freenet22             |       Owner:               
        Type:  defect                |      Status:  closed       
    Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:               
   Component:  - Select a component  |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.39
  Resolution:  not a bug             |    Keywords:               
      Parent:                        |      Points:               
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Comment(by freenet22):

 Replying to [comment:3 arma]:
 > I can reach http://www.elections.org.nz/elections/system-of-
 government.html just fine over Tor.
 >
 > As for why you can exit from "all countries except New Zealand", no, you
 can only exit from relays that exist, and there are only a few thousand
 relays currently, not evenly distributed.
 >
 > At the time of this ticket (and probably now, I haven't checked) there
 are no relays in New Zealand that allow exiting. (See
 https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#ExitPolicies)

 Thanks for taking an interest in this arma.I really appreciate it. Another
 odd thing happened. I decided to use orbproxy to see if this would solve
 my problem. Lo-and- behold it worked. Vidalia was still giving me the most
 common error message I've been recieving, that being " All routers are
 down or won't exit or are Excluded--choosing a doomed exit at random " but
 after about 40 seconds it gave me a New Zealand ip address. After about
 two days though, it stopped working again? I know NZ has some tough laws
 on Piracy introduced last year I think, I'm wondering if exit nodes that
 are being used are now stopped by providers over there? Maybe via laws
 introduced by the government? BTW I'm no expert in this area .When I'm
 refering to exit nodes what [I] mean is when one adds NZ fingerprints to
 the TOR DATA FILE and this allows tor to exit to only ONE of those
 fingerprints in the data file.If you go to the Tor Network Status (
 blutmagie.de ) there is about 10 New Zealand fingerprints I can access. I
 have also used the ( {NZ}, ) option with the same results.
 Thanks again.

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