[tor-dev] What hidden services does my relay node know about?

[Matt Traudt]

On 7/29/19 07:44, clive.jenson at tutanota.com wrote:
> I built tor from source and am running it as a relay (not exit node) and
> also as a directory server. It is my understanding that after a while I
> should experience V2 hidden services publishing their descriptors to me
> (each hidden service picks 6 directory servers at random to publish
> their descriptor to). How can I tell if this is happening? Can I
> (temporarily, for debugging purposes) view the descriptors being
> published to me?
> 
> I'm thinking their might be some useful logging if I enable debug logs
> (but I can't find it)? Or maybe there is something I can get over the
> control protocol (but I couldn't find anything obvious in the stem API
> docs that exposes it)? Or maybe I could make a code change to log this
> information (I'm not sure where the code is that receives the
> announcements)?
> 

Onion services will use your relay to store descriptors once it has the
HSDir flag. You can't determine which onion services or how many onion
services are using you without code changes.

Doing this is considered being a malicious relay and will get your relay
removed from the Tor network.

Matt