Hi! It is mainly maintained by Kasimir, I'm just responsible for the TOR History stuff. Best way to reach us is by mail ...
Greetz, ;-) Martin Karsten Loesing wrote: > Hi Martin, > > who maintains TorStatus these days? Is it you, Kasimir, both, even more > people...? :) Is there a mailing list, IRC channel, or some other way to > contact you rather than or-talk? > > none wrote: > > I tried something similar recently. My approach was to monitor the > > infrastructure only, as this is public knowledge, and collect no > > informations on the clients whatsoever. I incorporated this monitoring > > already into TorStatus. Check out the SVN of TorStatus for the > > implementation and see the trunk version of TorStatus @ > > http://trunk.torstatus.kgprog.com/ or > > http://trunk.torstatus.kgprog.com/network_history.php > > > It is not yet perfect. The timeslot for updating is too short, so the > > graphs look frayed. Short summary: > > > * collect the total number of running, running exits, running guards > > and running fast servers and save them in an RRD over time. > > * On the top 11 countries these values are collected as well. > > Looks like a great start to me! > > Right now, I'm investigating options to display more statistics about > the Tor network: https://www.torproject.org/projects/metrics . TorStatus > seems to be a promising tool for that. > > What would you say, how hard would it be to add router descriptors from > the past years to the database and make nice graphs from them? I have > written a Java application to feed descriptor archives into a PostgreSQL > database that could be adapted to MySQL and the TorStatus schema. > > Also, how hard would it be to add more graphs displaying other > information than the numbers of servers with certain flags? For an > example what output I'm interested in, see the evaluation of the 2008 > data: http://freehaven.net/~karsten/metrics/dirarch-2009-02-11.pdf > > And finally, how extensible is TorStatus regarding other data than > descriptor archives? Given that there are other interesting data about > the Tor network than what relays advertise, would it be feasible to > extend the TorStatus database and add more graphs? > > Thanks! > --Karsten
