Mapping the physical locations of Tor nodes
Bryan L. Fordham
bfordham at socialistsushi.com
Sat Aug 16 14:42:58 UTC 2008
> Any thoughts as to why these two maps are different? socialistsushi has
> far more nodes in asia, in particular china than the freehaven map. The
> sort by city choice on socialistsuchi also lists beijing as the city
> with the most routers.
>
Two thoughts:
First, we are both apparently using the max mind stuff, but I have a
fallback if that fails. That may explain why I have more.
Two: I noticed that certain IPs in some countries always seemed to
return a specific city. Specifically here, anything in China said
"Beijing." Don't know if that's accurate, or screwed up data, or what.
But I don't attempt to verify anything, just slap it on the map.
> Is socialistsushi cumulative over time or a snapshot of the current
> consensus at the time the script runs?
>
The map should be active nodes at the time it's run. The other data
should be over time. "Should be" because I never put much effort into
making sure it was doing things correctly. It was an experiment for me.
If there's interest in it again I may examine it a bit more, or perhaps
redo it (it's not terribly complicated) to be cleaner and let others
poke around in the code and tell me my errors :)
--B
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