Scripted exclusion of nodes? [Was: How to remove some useless nodes]

[F. Fox]

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Kraktus wrote:
> You can add
> ExcludeNodes NodeName1, NodeName2
> to your torrc, where the NodeName1, etc. are the names of Chinese exit
> nodes that you are aware of.  However, you much disallow each Chinese
> node separately; you can't exclude by country.
(snip)

Sadly, China's government would likely spend the resources to constantly
"randomize" their nodes, one way or the other.

Perhaps a script (set as a cron job?) could be used to find Chinese
nodes in the Tor directory on a regular basis, update the ExcludeNodes
section of the torrc, and do a "sudo killall -s SIGHUP tor" to load it.
I'll have to think it over... perhaps I could use it to get some
scripting practice? =;o)

(Do note that this is UNIX-centric; if you're using Vidalia [as the
original poster said], I don't think it would be that easy.)

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F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+
Owner of Tor node "kitsune"
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