[tor-dev] onionoo details document deterministic output

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 25/04/15 22:37, nusenu wrote:
>> You mean instead of:
> 
>> {"version":"2.3", "relays_published":"2015-04-25 18:00:00", 
>> "relays":[ 
>> {"n":"shadowmourne","f":"1F515F1D420B498D9687658F4A3D176F88DD4910","a"
>
>> 
:["91.219.236.218","80.255.11.213"],"r":true},
> 
> 
> {"n":"StinTheHuman","f":"7C05C5D24577CA4C3A904470AE5526C32290FCF0","a":[
>
> 
"108.216.89.93"],"r":true}
>> ], "bridges_published":"2015-04-25 17:52:43", "bridges":[ ]}
> 
>> something like this (note the "u" field):
> 
>> {"version":"2.3", "relays_published":"2015-04-25 18:00:00", 
>> "relays":[ 
>> {"n":"shadowmourne","f":"1F515F1D420B498D9687658F4A3D176F88DD4910","a"
>
>> 
:["91.219.236.218","80.255.11.213"],"r":true,"u":"2014-05-25
> 
> 
> 18:39:15"},
>> {"n":"StinTheHuman","f":"7C05C5D24577CA4C3A904470AE5526C32290FCF0","a"
>
>> 
:["108.216.89.93"],"r":true,"u":"2014-05-25
> 
> 
> 18:32:50"}
>> ], "bridges_published":"2015-04-25 17:52:43", "bridges":[ ]}
> 
> Yes, one timestamp per record, but I'm not entirely sure what the 
> timestamps here represent. I expected more something like 
> 2015-04-25 XX:00:00 (one hour granularity for consensus
> timestamps), but not necessarily matching the one in the
> relays_published entry.
> 
>> However, I this is probably just a minor problem for most users. 
>> It's still a bug, but nothing too serious.  (Your use case of 
>> finding differences between two Onionoo servers is probably the 
>> exception there.)
> 
> My use case will be "feed details.json into a db once an hour and
> use relays_published as the 'consensus timestamp' from which this
> data comes from". But the assumption 'this comes from consensus X'
> is not valid in all cases as we know. So I would use the
> per-record-timestamp to find out on what consensus "I'm currently
> looking at" (in case something like this will be added).

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15848

All the best,
Karsten
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