Re: TOR Directory file

[Joe Clark <joe_clark28@xxxxxxxxx>]

First of all, thanks !

 

You're saying to not rely on the cached-routers file (name and format), so what can I rely on as a list of all routers?

 

this:

http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.pl?textonly=1%22

 

or maybe this: (notice that this is by the old format)

http://moria.mit.edu:9031/tor/

?

 

Thanks!,

Joe.

Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 12:19:27AM -0700, Joe Clark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to be rude, but please answer my little question.
>
>
> Joe Clark wrote:
> Dear TOR users:
>
> I got a pretty newbie question to you guys:
> From where does TOR client take its routers' database ?

The directory protocol is described at
http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/dir-spec.txt

> In v-0.1.0.17 it was a file called "cached-directory". I upgraded
> to v-0.1.1.23 and I noticed some changes in the filename
> ("cached-routers" ?!) and in the file format.

Indeed you did. The old protocol is at
http://tor.eff.org/svn/trunk/doc/dir-spec-v0.txt

The storage format is undocumented, and intentionally so: we may
change it without warning, so please don't rely on it. But basically,
the old format was just to store a raw directory to disk. The new
format is to store a network status document for each authority in a
file named cached-status/ (with the authority's
fingerprint given in hex); and to store the router descriptors
concatenated in cached-routers and cached-routers.new. The latter is
append-only, and used as a journal; periodically, we prune out unused
router descriptors and regenerate cached-routers.

The source (in routerlist.c) should have full information.

yrs,
--
Nick Mathewson

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