[tor-dev] Help Wanted: Fallback Directory Update

[teor]

Hi All,

We're going to meet in about 22 hours (2300 UTC Tuesday 19 December)
in #tor-dev to work on this. (That's the network team patch party
time.)

I haven't done much, because I've been busy with work deadlines.

> On 13 Dec 2017, at 12:58, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Dominique, pastly, and Hello71 have offered to help out with this.
> (I don't have Hello71's email, I'll ping them on IRC.)
> 
> Let's start by fixing up some of the code, and asking relay operators
> if they want to be on the list.
> 
>> On 11 Dec 2017, at 14:51, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ...
>> Fallback directory mirrors help clients reach the Tor network.
>> 
>> We need to rebuild the list every so often when their details change.
>> (We have an automated check for 25% failure, and it just triggered.)
>> 
>> ...
> 
> pastly, I drafted an email for step 0, can you check it makes sense?
> (I used to send out way too much info. I'm trying to be brief.)
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UpdatingFallbackDirectoryMirrors#ATypicalRelease

I am going to send this out today or tomorrow when I get time.

I want to add a note here about the ongoing DoS attacks.
Maybe this means adjusting the uptime requirement.

>> 0. Ask operators to opt-in stable relays as fallback directory mirrors
>> If they are on the whitelist already, they don't need to do anything.
>> Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22527
>> File:   https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist
> 
> Anyone can do step 1, it's a copy-and-paste job with git and a config file:
> 
>> 1. Update the fallback whitelist with new and changed relay details
>> Tickets: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22321
>>          https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22527
>> File:    tor/scripts/maint/fallback.whitelist
> 
> Dominique, do you want to do Step 2?
> It's a one-line patch that would be a good intro to Tor's bug tracker and git.
> Please base it on the "master" branch.

This is done, I have to review it.

>> 2. Update updateFallbackDirs.py to have a CONSENSUS_EXPIRY_TOLERANCE of 0.
>> Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20942
>> File:   tor/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py
> 
> There are two more optional tasks if someone likes python:
> 
> Mark the fallbacks that have extra-info descriptors, so stem can use them
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22759
> 
> Add fallback nicknames to the file, so stem can use them
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24600
> 
>> 3. Run updateFallbackDirs.py with the new whitelist and CONSENSUS_EXPIRY_TOLERANCE.
>> You'll need a decent network connection for this.
>> Please attach the script logs to the trac ticket.
>> Command: tor/scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py > src/or/fallback_dirs.inc
> 
> And there's another step here I forgot:
> 
> 3a. Look at the warnings from the script to see which addresses have changed.
>    Contact operators to see if the new addresses are permanent.
>    Then repeat steps 1 and 3 with the new details.
>    Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22321
> 
>> 4. Write a changes file
>> Ticket: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22271
>> Draft:
>> 
>> o Minor features (fallback directory list):
>>  - Replace the 151 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha in
>>    May 2017 (of which ~111 were still functional) with a list of
>>    NNN fallbacks (NNN new, NNN unchanged, NNN removed) generated in December
>>    2017. Resolves ticket 22271.
>> 
>> There are some commands that count fallback changes here:
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UpdatingFallbackDirectoryMirrors#FormattingChangesFiles
> 
> Once this is done, the list gets backported to 0.2.8 and later.
> But the rest of the changes go into master.
> 
>> 5. Announce the new list on tor-relays@
> 
> Example: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-May/012285.html
> 
>> 6. Tell the relay search maintainer that the list has changed

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