no country flags/City-Country id on nodes in Tor Network Map
Recently the country flags and City-Country names disappeared in the Tor Network Map display page of Vidalia. I suspect a problem connected to the error message now appearing on the Message Log page.
error message is; Oct 13 23:01:58.631 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address 'geoips.vidalia-project.net' at 3 different places. Giving up. Oct 13 23:05:36.584 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address 'geoips.vidalia-project.net' at 3 different places. Giving up. Oct 13 23:06:11.866 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address 'geoips.vidalia-project.net' at 3 different places. Giving up. Oct 13 23:06:46.725 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address 'geoips.vidalia-project.net' at 3 different places. Giving up. Oct 13 23:07:48.241 [Notice] Have tried resolving or connecting to address 'geoips.vidalia-project.net' at 3 different places. Giving up.
this message repeated many times in error log.
I suspect that this will break the ExcludeNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, EntryNodes, ExitNodes clauses in torrc file if you are using country codes to include/exclude nodes. For some users this may cause serious security problems or tracabilty problem because of connections made to hostile countrys (police, military etc).
Is there a workaround or fix for this problem? or is this even a problem to worry about?
I have verified this to exist on several different computers, most running Win XP Home Sp4/Tor 0.2.1.26 or Win XP Pro Sp3/Tor 0.2.1.26 one Win Vista Sp1/Tor 0.2.1.26 all have latest Msoft updates and no firewalls blocking access to tor nodes.
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