[metrics-bugs] #21014 [Metrics/Censorship analysis]: Turkey blocking of direct connections, 2016-12-12 (was: TR is blocking Tor connections)

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#21014: Turkey blocking of direct connections, 2016-12-12
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 Reporter:  mrphs                        |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  task                         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                       |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Censorship analysis  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                       |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  censorship block tr Turkey   |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by dcf):

 There is one ooniprobe in Turkey, and it reports that it has not been able
 to make a vanilla Tor connection starting on 2016-12-13 (`T` means success
 and `F` means failure).

 {{{
 test_start_time,success,probe_cc,transport_name,test_runtime
 ...
 2016-12-11 00:01:04,T,TR,vanilla,91.0027029514
 2016-12-12 00:01:01,T,TR,vanilla,80.7238359451
 2016-12-13 09:16:40,F,TR,vanilla,300.1475861073
 2016-12-13 10:20:30,F,TR,vanilla,300.1046140194
 2016-12-15 17:14:54,F,TR,vanilla,300.1320888996
 2016-12-16 00:00:35,F,TR,vanilla,300.1127798557
 }}}

 [[Image(tr-tor-20161215.png)]]

 source code for graph
 {{{
 # mkdir -p reports
 # wget -O -
 'http://staging.measurements.ooni.io/api/v1/files?probe_cc=TR&test_name=vanilla_tor'
 | jq -r '.results[].download_url' | wget --no-http-keep-alive -P reports
 -c -i -
 # (echo "test_start_time,success,probe_cc,transport_name,test_runtime"; jq
 -j '.test_start_time,",",if .test_keys.success then "T" else "F"
 end,",",.probe_cc,",",.test_keys.transport_name,",",.test_runtime,"\n"'
 reports/*) > tr.csv
 library(ggplot2)
 x <- read.csv("tr.csv")
 x$test_start_time <- as.POSIXct(x$test_start_time, tz="GMT")
 p <- ggplot(x)
 p <- p + geom_linerange(aes(test_start_time, ymin=0, ymax=test_runtime,
 color=success), size=1.5, alpha=0.8, stat="identity")
 p <- p + scale_x_datetime(date_breaks="1 month", date_minor_breaks="1
 week")
 p <- p + ggtitle("time to bootstrap Tor in Turkey")
 p <- p + theme_bw()
 p <- p + theme(legend.position="top")
 filename <- sprintf("tr-tor-%s.png", strftime(max(x$test_start_time),
 "%Y%m%d"))
 ggsave(filename, p, dpi=120, width=5, height=3)
 }}}

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