[tor-bugs] #5028 [Ooni]: Tor bridge scanning

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#5028: Tor bridge scanning
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 Reporter:  hellais  |          Owner:  runa                     
     Type:  project  |         Status:  assigned                 
 Priority:  normal   |      Milestone:  Sponsor F: March 15, 2012
Component:  Ooni     |        Version:                           
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Comment(by hellais):

 Replying to [comment:30 karsten]:
 > It seems nobody is happy with the current situation.  I can understand
 that.  I know it's hard, but can we postpone the discussion who's
 responsible for all this for a few more days?
 >
 > How can we solve the problem that we need to run these scans today or
 tomorrow, ideally from China and Germany?
 >
 > Arturo, can you help me set up tcpcon on my VM and prepare the same
 setup on a PlanetLab host in China?  Maybe today?  I'm around on IRC.
 >
 > I'll analyze the results and write a tech report, ideally with Arturo's
 help.

 Although I don't believe that scanning these bridges from inside China is
 a good idea, at least without putting some more thought to it I wrote a
 TCP Connect scanner.
 The tcpcon written by runa was for the old version of ooni-probe and I
 thought it would be faster to rewrite it rather than port the old code.

 You can find it here:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/ooni-
 probe.git/commit/81b5de65d178d08ac1a01c7e84f8bde397e60c03

 To run it you need to edit assets/tcpscan.txt to include the list of
 bridges in <IP>:<PORT> format and then run

     $ ./ooniprobe.py -r tcpscan

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