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Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 15:21:06
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Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-05-07 📝 Original message:On Wed, May 7, 2014 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2014-05-07
📝 Original message:On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Wladimir <laanwj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> Another is to export stats over regular TCP and make them public so
>> literally anyone can listen to the stats feed for any node.
>
> TOR does this as well: http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/
>
> No idea what they use to submit/gather the statistics.

The tor network works based on a centralized (well, in theory,
federated) trusted directory service. (More info in
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=dir-spec.txt).

Much of data that is not related to relay related is just generated by
probes, e.g. semi-trusted bandwidth authorities that measure node
performance back to the directory authorities.

More info on their monitoring work is available here:
https://metrics.torproject.org/tools.html
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