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Free Software Efforts (2018W28)

Last week was my second week working full time in the Metrics team at Tor Project.

Here’s what I’ve been up to:

Tor Project

Relay Search Fixes

A few fixes for Relay Search. These were all small fixes but hopefully should also be quite high impact for usability.

Onionoo Enhancements

The improvements to Onionoo’s reverse DNS resolver have now been finalised and merged. The plan is that this will be deployed next week.

I have added support to Onionoo to filter relays by operating system. This was the oldest open Onionoo ticket until it was fixed.

Overblocking

Last week when I found myself with my Internet connection down, I tried to use my EE LTE connection to work instead. This plan fell apart quite quickly when I discovered that *.torproject.org was blocked as 18+ content.

I found using the Open Rights Group’s tool, blocked.org.uk, that in fact a large number of UK ISPs have these wildcard blocks in place. This tool also provides a means to report misclassification and so I submitted requests to unblock the following domains:

Summer School on Internet Path Transparency Measurements

This post was originally published at the MAMI Project blog.

On June the 11th the Electronics Research Group hosted the MAMI Summer School on Internet Path Transparency Measurements in Aberdeen, Scotland. This consisted of a few hands-on workshops, with participation both on-site and remote via video conference.

The summer school started with Korian and Justin demonstrating Tracebox through a variety of topologies. The participants then worked on their own trying to uncover middleboxes and hidden topologies using a variety of tools, including tracebox and paris-traceroute.

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