same first hops
Geoff Down
downie at castlecops.net
Thu Oct 9 18:23:48 UTC 2008
On 9 Oct 2008, at 13:33, Scott Bennett wrote:
> While we're on this subject, I'd like to point out a problem with
> tor's
> current data rate capacity testing during server initialization. In
> order
> to get some initial observations of the available data rates over a
> server's
> network connections, tor builds a few (3?) test circuits that make a
> loop
> from itself into the tor network and then back to itself. At present
> it
> uses the normal route length to do this, which can give a drastically
> low
> measurement. A better way would seem to be to use a single hop, i.e.,
> a
> circuit that goes to one other relay and the back to its source. That
> may
> still provide a low estimate however, so the value obtained from a
> single
> hop test probably ought to be doubled for use as an estimate of the
> data rate
> capacity of the server that is being initialized.
Interestingly, I had about 6 single nodes showing on the Vidalia
network map yesterday, whilst my traffic was going via a normal 3-node
circuit and another 3-node circuit was in preparation.
The single nodes disappeared after 20 minutes or so.
GD
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