A Brief Study on Circuit Construction Speed and Reliability

[Ringo Kamens]

Once the next phase is complete, I'll import all the data onto graphs so we
can see where problems are occuring. Is there a centralized database of what
tor nodes correspond to what countries? It would be interesting to see what
countries are the fastest, or where weird errors are concentrated. There's a
chance that some governments may be subtly making tor hard to use or that
some network routers have problems with certain sequences of connections or
something.
Ringo


On 12/17/06, Mike Perry <mikepery at fscked.org> wrote:
>
> Thus spake Ringo Kamens (2600denver at gmail.com):
>
> > Thanks for that. It's interesting to have that data visualized.
>
> Yeah, it's not quite as immediately relevant as exit scanning, but it
> is a little more interesting with respect to studying the network as a
> whole I think. What I'm really looking forward to is gathering some
> statistics on most common peers during failure. I'm curious if those
> OR_CONN_CLOSED are happening because certain nodes are
> unreachable or partitioned from one another somehow, or if it is
> something else. But I need better structure & object support for that
> than perl can provide sanely, unfortunately.
>
> I've gone back to scanning exits in the meantime. If anyone wants to
> join me with a different wordlist.txt, set of filetypes and other ssh
> hosts, it might be nice.
>
> --
> Mike Perry
> Mad Computer Scientist
> fscked.org evil labs
>
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