[tor-talk] HS drop

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:27:25AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:42 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Noting what is apparently a very large drop in the number of onions
> > online. Still checking...
> 
> Estimating dropout at about 400 onions or 1/3 of total.

How are you estimating 'total' here?

(The way I'd do it is by running a bunch of relays with the HSDir flag,
and approximating the total number of descriptor publishes based on the
number that go to my relays. That approach would harm network diversity
though.)

--Roger