Make it easier to check the entire fallback whitelist for errors

There are instructions for modifying the fallback script to scan the entire whitelist in: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/UpdatingFallbackDirectoryMirrors

It would be great if we automated these.

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Milestone: Tor: 0.3.??? to Tor: unspecified

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Component: Core Tor/Tor to Core Tor/Fallback Scripts
Owner: N/A to teor

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Status: new to assigned
Owner: teor to N/A

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Status: assigned to new

This is the old text from the wiki:

You can check the entire whitelist by running the script like this:

i. Make sure the whitelist and blacklist and script are the current ones, including the latest operator updates (not the modified ones from other instructions) ii. Set the log level to INFO for both the script and stem:

- logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING)
+ logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

- logging.getLogger('stem').setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+ logging.getLogger('stem').setLevel(logging.INFO)

iii. Output candidate fallbacks (ignore the whitelist, log operator contact details):

- OUTPUT_CANDIDATES = False
+ OUTPUT_CANDIDATES = True

iv. Perform IPv4 checks:

- PERFORM_IPV4_DIRPORT_CHECKS = False if OUTPUT_CANDIDATES else True
+ PERFORM_IPV4_DIRPORT_CHECKS = True

v. If you have a working IPv6 connection (or can set up an IPv6 tunnel), perform IPv6 checks:

- PERFORM_IPV6_DIRPORT_CHECKS = False if OUTPUT_CANDIDATES else False
+ PERFORM_IPV6_DIRPORT_CHECKS = True

iv. Run the fallback selection script, saving the list:

scripts/maint/updateFallbackDirs.py > whitelist_check 2> whitelist_check.log

This can take a long time, as it downloads ~150MB of OnionOO data, parses it, then tries each fallback's DirPort.

The fallback list has a check_existing mode.

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

closed

changed time estimate to 4h

moved to tpo/core/fallback-scripts#20897 (closed)