> I think that many of my previous scans were not useful and > showed inaccurate
I'm glad that it turned out that these previous results might have been inaccurate (because the results were scary if found to be accurate) > results because the IP address i was scanning > from might have gotten black listed by dir-auths? I don't see how dir auths could blacklist specific client IP addresses (tor clients use fallbackdirs) > or perhaps blocked > by many relays by the anti-denial-of-service mechanisms in tor? can you let me know the start and end date of the scan (2018-03-12?) so I can check how many of the relays you scanned (the top 100 relays by cw? at the time) had a tor version with anti ddos features at the time? During your first scans (2017) there have been no anti-dos features. > i got rid of that virtual server and lost use of it's IP address... so we'll > never know. > > Katharina and I are interested in doing lots more thorough scans of > the Tor network rather than this limited methodology i've been using. I'm excited to hear that. > What are the guidelines to avoid getting blocked by the tor network? stay under the public thresholds? https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en#_denial_of_service_mitigation_options > Is it possible to check the consensus to see if a client IP has been blocked? the consensus holds information about relays not about tor client IP addresses, but I assume you know that and I misunderstood your question? -- https://mastodon.social/@nusenu twitter: @nusenu_
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