another reason to keep ExcludeNodes

Mitar mmitar at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 16:54:51 UTC 2009


Hi!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>     I just read Roger's message from July 2006 on playing down the use of
> ExcludeNodes and maybe eventually eliminating it.  I encountered a reason
> to use it not long ago that doesn't seem to have been mentioned.  I noticed
> that certain image files that are frequently updated and that I look at many
> times a day were getting truncated at random points in the files.  After a
> little bit of investigation it turned out that one particular relay was
> always in a circuit that truncated those files, so I added it to my
> ExcludeNodes list.  And voila' complete images from then on.

Would not it be better if you would report this node so that its
problem can be fixed?


Mitar



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