How to strictly exclude exit nodes?

[Anon Mus]

Anon Mus wrote:
> Scott Bennett wrote:
>>      On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:13:02 -0600 "John Brooks" 
>> <aspecialj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>  
>>> 4 and 5 hop circuits can be created when contacting or publishing
>>> hidden services and, I believe, sometimes when retrieving directory
>>>     
>>
>>      A circuit to a hidden service may indeed have four or more hops.
>> However, the client sees only the hops on the client's side of the
>> rendezvous and the server sees only the hops on the server's side of
>> the rendezvous.  Even the number of hops on the other party's side of
>> the rendezvous is unknown to the party that is curious.
>>
>>  
>>> information. Many nodes run directories on port 443, so that's not
>>> particularly unusual.
>>>     
>>
>>      I'm not sure why a non-hidden-service circuit would have more than
>> the hard-coded default number of hops unless a controller has directed
>> the client in building that circuit.
>>  
>>> For the thread as a whole, I still think the problem is that this exit
>>> node is being *explicitly* requested (www.google.com.blabla.exit), and
>>> that it would never be chosen automatically by tor itself, as I stated
>>> in my first message. StrictExitNodes is an irrelevant setting.
>>>     
>>
>>      I agree.  It's his own fault.
>>
>>
>>                                   Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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>>   
> I can now confirm that dozens of 4 hop circuits can be seen in 
> vidalia's "connections" list (no more 5 hops yet) and they are being 
> used by the likes of vidalia and thunderbird just as the 3 hop 
> circuits are.
>
> I have also observed that large numbers of 4 hop circuits appear on 
> startup of the tor client and pretty much disappear after a few 
> minutes or so. This is probably why I only noticed the odd one before 
> now.
>
> Can anyone else see this?
>
>
> -K-
>

I have installed the latest tor (vidalia 0.1.9, tor 0.2.0.31) bundle for 
windows. This time I downloaded it via tor rather than through the open 
internet as I had previously.

With the previous version I could see  fully built 1, (2 - maybe ?? - 
once), 3, 4 and 5 hops circuits.

With this latest version I can now see fully built 3, 4 and 5 hops circuits.

I have screen shots of 4 and 5 hops circuits in on vidalia's connection 
window. If anyone would like copies, please email me.


-K-