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Add support for continuous scanning

Open NullHypothesis opened this issue 9 years ago • 2 comments

In addition to one-off scans, it would be great to have support for continuous scanning. exitmap should then download the hourly consensus and have a smart way to scan new relays and re-scan existing relays.

NullHypothesis avatar Sep 04 '14 19:09 NullHypothesis

I'm working on something very similar here: https://github.com/arlolra/exitaddr

arlolra avatar Sep 04 '14 20:09 arlolra

There are a bunch of things to balance here:

  • We want to scan new exit relays soon but not always in the first hour, they are part of the network. That would make the scanner too predictable.
  • We want to scan existing relays again. But not every hour. Perhaps once a day or every other day.
  • We want to run every module over every relay but not immediately after each other as this would make the scanner's behaviour too predictable.

I'll start working on a branch.

NullHypothesis avatar Nov 15 '14 17:11 NullHypothesis