Re: [tor-dev] Tor and BGP integration

On 2011-Jun-09 23:34, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

For Tor itself doing some programmatic things... There are plenty
of BGP looking glasses out there. But for the purposes of some
script banging away at them (times the number of nodes doing so),
yes, it is definitely considered proper to set up a dedicated feed.
I don't think the project would have any problem running its own
Quagga, OpenBGPD, etc instance. And then if it asked around, finding
a couple of friendly ISP's to peer with (and to even host the query
interface) for this purpose.

I think the NORDUnet people are interested in doing this; I suspect they're the biggest ISP we'll find and one of their hackers works on Tor quite a bit, he even runs a Directory Authority....

We could create a hidden service that provides this feature then people who query stay anonymous too.

I don't see any harm or difficulty in setting that up for a GRH interface if one would want that. If one can define the values that need to come out, then that can be setup quickly.

Greets, Jeroen