How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed by phw on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:57AM (#50168341)

I built exitmap over ten years ago. Glad to see it's still of use :)

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Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed by kabakabakaba on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:40PM (#50169050)

Thats awesome! Thanks for building it, it helped a ton :)

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Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed by 4gotunameagain on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:02PM (#50173293)

A bit of a tangential question but are there any guardrails around the capability that exitmap uses to perform its function ?

Could someone DDoS Tor by abusing exitmap ?

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Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed by chatmasta on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:59PM (#50173853)

You can configure number of hops per circuit and that includes single hop circuits. So exitmap doesn’t add any functionality that isn’t already part of Tor.

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Re:How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed by phw on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:53AM (#50194106)

There are no guardrails because they could easily be removed and exitmap's intended use case (verifying exit relay integrity) is far more important than its potential for abuse. Besides, the Tor network has seen several DDoS attacks over the years and I'm not aware of any that used exitmap.

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