Hi @all.
I am running 8 Exit-relays on the same physical machine located in Norway.
Recently, the hosting-provider TerraHost changed to Gigahost.
This week, they changed my IPs (because of Tor-Exit-Traffic).
Now the exit-addresses are from russia (185.40.4.xx)
(link to example-relay
Is this a problem and should be avoided?
Best regards
Falk
WofWca
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It’s probably that the GeoIP database has not been updated yet. AFAIK Tor does not make a difference between relays based on GeoIP.
In addition, sometimes Tor relays can actually work from inside of Russia: sometimes the network filtering rules do not apply to VPS servers — they mainly target regular users.
The relays seem to be working fine.
I am a little worried about the privacy of the users.
I don’t know if attacks like traffic correlation or DNS spoofing are possible or easier.
WofWca
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I don’t think GeoIP affects this.
BobbyB
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I have an off topic question about where exits node are. A bit of time ago I remember checking the tor metrics and a member’s exit nodes just out of curiosity because he was on a thread I was also on. His stated Russia but when I checked most IPs were in Germany. Are the IP databases off by that much? or were they really in DE and if so why are they listed in RU?
WofWca
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I think that the country might be estimated based on AS data that the relay is running on. For you it’s this one: AS214576 Berdiev Ruslan Mukhabatovich - bgp.tools
My guess is that people just register their AS in Russia and the servers might actually be somewhere else. But I don’t know much about this.
You can see exit nodes that are in Russia here.