Add support for continuous scanning

NullHypothesis / exitmap

A fast and modular scanner for Tor exit relays. The canonical repository (including issue tracker) is at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/exitmap

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Add support for continuous scanning #7

Closed NullHypothesis closed 11 months ago

NullHypothesis commented 10 years ago

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.

arlolra commented 10 years ago

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

NullHypothesis commented 9 years ago

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.