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From: Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 08:07:44AM +0100, Ben Stover wrote:
> Assume I specified in "torrc" file
> 
> ExitNodes {fr},{de],{ca}
> 
> According to Tor docs that means that the exit nodes should always (?) be in one of the three countries.
> 
> On the other hand there is another parameter "StrictExitNodes" which forces Tor to use an ExitNode
> from one of the three nodes. This is confusing.

Strictexitnodes went away years ago. It no longer exists.

You might enjoy
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=tor-0.2.2.7-alpha#n43
for the history of how the design changed (back in 2010).

--Roger

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