On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Gareth Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all > > Sorry if this is the wrong list (please tell me if it is). > > I'm undertaking research into the tor HS DHT and have a couple of > questions. I know at present, a node must be on for 25 hours to > participate in the DHT; however, periodically I wish to make small code > changes to Tor and restart the node (aka fairly instantly/within minutes) > but this causes me to lose the HSDir flag. So my questions are: > > 1) Is there anyway to restart Tor without losing the HSDir flag? > 2) Is uptime self reporting - e.g. is a node's self reported uptime > trusted or is it obtained elsewhere - I couldn't find the answer in the > code. I guess what I'm getting at, is can I fake the uptime to get the > HSDir flag? > from comment 1 in, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8243 it seems that uptime is self-reported in the descriptor and that the directory authorities probably shouldn't be trusting it rather than messing with that, maybe you want to setup an experiment with shadow http://shadow.github.io/ and turn on TestingTorNetwork 1 so that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2 0 https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en > > Best > Gareth > > --- > Dr Gareth Owen > School of Computing > University of Portsmouth > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > >
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