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Re: [tor-talk] How Tor fetchs the consensus file and maintains the cached-consensus file?
Hello Damian,
Thanks for your kindly explanation. I have tried method c. you
mentioned, and found that the returned exit node list with specified
exit policy is not as the same as the result i obtained by quering
"https://check.torproject.org/cgi-bin/TorBulkExitList.py";. The
mismatch of the results makes me confused. Can you help me to
overcome this problem? thanks.
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BR, BT
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014, at 12:17 AM, Damian Johnson wrote:
> Stem provides three methods for getting consensus data...
>
> a. Fetch it from the Controller via methods like
> get_network_statuses()...
>
> https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.control.Controller.get_network_statuses
>
> b. Read it from disk as you're trying to do. There shouldn't be any
> reason to do this when running a relay. This capability is meant to be
> used for descriptor archives.
>
> c. Downloading them via the stem.descriptor.remote module...
>
> https://stem.torproject.org/api/descriptor/remote.html
>
> In this case method 'a' should be your best option.
>
> Cheers! -Damian
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Bron Taylor <bron.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hello~
> >
> > I am trying to develop a program that can automatically build a
> > circuit with Stem library and send my data over the circuit to the
> > destination anonymously. At the beginning, I tried to make my
> > program read the "cached-consensus" file to get the propriate exit
> > node, however, some of the exit nodes failed to relay the traffic
> > for me. It seems the node was claiming it can relay the traffic to
> > somewhere at some port but not working as well as it claimed.
> > Therefore, I am looking forward to the way to get the whole list
> > containing all of the exit nodes for my program to have more chance
> > for choosing the most suitable exit node. Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > BR, BT
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Damian Johnson wrote:
> >> Hi Bron. What in particular are you trying to do?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Bron Taylor <bron.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Dear All,
> >> >
> >> > I am running a Tor client on my system and deveploping a software
> >> > with Stem library. I found that Tor didn't download a whole list of
> >> > consensus to local, but a cached-consensus which is just part of the
> >> > whole list instead. I would like to ask and know how Tor maintains
> >> > the cached-consensus file on local and how can I make tor to
> >> > download the whole list? Can anyone help to answer my quesion or
> >> > provide me any useful links? Thanks.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > BR, BT
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