[tor-dev] Detecting if a IP address belongs to a Tor Exit node.

[David Fifield]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:39:09AM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> >>>> Why not just run and query an Onionoo server?
> >>>
> >>> Onionoo isn't really optimised in regards to giving out lists of
> >>> exits, the parsing of the JSON sounds like a duplicate effort to me.
> >>> Also, shipping Onionoo with every facilitator seems a bit overkill.
> 
> It's not Onionoo's primary purpose to give out lists of exit addresses,
> but it provides that information, too.  It just doesn't offer good query
> parameters for that use case.  But I think you should do okay
> downloading the full set of relay summaries once per hour and cache that
> data locally.  The URL is:
> 
> https://onionoo.torproject.org/summary?type=relay&running=true
> 
> The protocol specification is here:
> 
> https://onionoo.torproject.org/
> 
> I wouldn't recommend running your own Onionoo server, particularly not
> on every facilitator.  But if you cache results, you don't really have
> to do that.

Thank you, Karsten, for the helpful information.

Jorge, I think that using Onionoo as a data source is the thing to do.
You should be able to adapt your program from
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7549#comment:4. You can
assume that the Python json library is present.

David Fifield