commit 79e924a9e7dc2f193c1869e9e36aea20292e076a Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Wed Mar 26 09:18:40 2014 -0700

Adding example for listing outdated relays

Adding our script from ticket 9476 which prints contact information for relays prior to a given version. I picked example output that was especially obscured addresses, then modified them further to make them useless to scrapers. ;) --- docs/contents.rst | 1 + docs/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.rst | 4 +++ docs/tutorials/examples/outdated_relays.rst | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/contents.rst b/docs/contents.rst index 70eda0f..4d79639 100644 --- a/docs/contents.rst +++ b/docs/contents.rst @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Contents

tutorials/examples/compare_flags tutorials/examples/exit_used + tutorials/examples/outdated_relays

change_log download diff --git a/docs/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.rst b/docs/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.rst index 093592e..7e39eb8 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/double_double_toil_and_trouble.rst @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ Client Usage Descriptors -----------

+* `List Outdated Relays <examples/outdated_relays.html>`_ + + Prints contact information for relays prior to a given version. + * `Comparing Directory Authority Flags <examples/compare_flags.html>`_

Compares the votes of two directory authorities, in this case moria1 and diff --git a/docs/tutorials/examples/outdated_relays.rst b/docs/tutorials/examples/outdated_relays.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e11258 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/tutorials/examples/outdated_relays.rst @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +List Outdated Relays +==================== + +Time marches on. Tor makes new releases, and at some point needs to drop support for old ones. Below is the script we used on :trac:`9476` to reach out to relay operators that needed to upgrade. + +:: + + from stem.descriptor.remote import DescriptorDownloader + from stem.version import Version + + downloader = DescriptorDownloader() + count, with_contact = 0, 0 + + print "Checking for outdated relays..." + print + + for desc in downloader.get_server_descriptors(): + if desc.tor_version < Version('0.2.3.0'): + count += 1 + + if desc.contact: + print ' %-15s %s' % (desc.tor_version, desc.contact.decode("utf-8", "replace")) + with_contact += 1 + + print + print "%i outdated relays found, %i had contact information" % (count, with_contact) + +:: + + % python outdated_relays.py + Checking for outdated relays... + + 0.2.2.39 Random Person admin@gtr-10.de + 0.2.2.36 dobrovich_psckaal at vietrievus dot ok + 0.2.2.39 anonymous6 anonymous@mailinator.com + 0.2.2.39 anonymous12 anonymous@mailinator.com + ... + + 316 outdated relays found, 120 had contact information +