Dear all
Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is).
I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of questions. I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to participate in the DHT; however, periodically I wish to make small code changes to Tor and restart the node (aka fairly instantly/within minutes) but this causes me to lose the HSDir flag. So my questions are:
1) Is there anyway to restart Tor without losing the HSDir flag? 2) Is uptime self reporting - e.g. is a node's self reported uptime trusted or is it obtained elsewhere - I couldn't find the answer in the code. I guess what I'm getting at, is can I fake the uptime to get the HSDir flag?
Best Gareth
--- Dr Gareth Owen School of Computing University of Portsmouth