Re: [tor-dev] Testing in Tor [was Re: Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool]

2012-12-19 Thread Damian Johnson
> [...] >> Maybe there is no automated testing for any Tor projects? At least a >> quick search on the wiki only found [1] which lists possible ways to >> test (but was created 7 months ago and apparently not updated since >> and collecting dust) and [2] discussing a manual test procedure for >> T

Re: [tor-dev] Idle connections in netstat

2012-12-19 Thread Damian Johnson
> I also have had success in using the following: > ControlListenAddress 127.0.0.1:9051 > Which binds the control port to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and is thus not > visible to the outside world. > (Including the people on the internet port scan you just for running a Tor > node.) Or set 'ControlPort

Re: [tor-dev] Testing in Tor [was Re: Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool]

2012-12-19 Thread Simon
nning bigger networks, but I think that here they might not be > needed, since their focus seems to be on performance measurement. > Chutney is enough for basic integration testing, and has the advantage > that it's running unmodified Tor binaries. Stem is interesting here > to

Re: [tor-dev] Idle connections in netstat

2012-12-19 Thread Angus Gardner
Hi, Just thought I would follow up on this. Arm is a neat tool which allows 'top'-like output on a tor relay, current bandwith, cpu utilization, connections to other relays etc. This dose require the control-port to be enabled in your torrc file. eg: ## The port on which Tor will listen for lo

Re: [tor-dev] Testing in Tor [was Re: Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool]

2012-12-19 Thread Nick Mathewson
re too, since it exercises Tor's control port protocol pretty heavily.) I've uploaded the gcov output for running the unit tests, then running chutney with the networks/basic configuration, at http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/volatile/gcov-20121219.tar.xz . (Warning, evil archive file! It will

Re: [tor-dev] Testing in Tor [was Re: Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool]

2012-12-19 Thread Simon
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Simon wrote: > [...] >> Tor seems to have good planning compared to most open source projects. >> So I would be interested in hearing why testing is apparently 'falling >> between the cracks'. Why isn't the

Re: [tor-dev] Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool

2012-12-19 Thread Runa A. Sandvik
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Philipp Winter wrote: > Hi there, Hi Philipp, > Deliverable 6 for sponsor Z says: > >> 6. Start a tool that a censored developer can run to discover why their Tor >> is >> failing to connect: brainstorm a list of "things to check", and sort them by >> how useful

[tor-dev] Testing in Tor [was Re: Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool]

2012-12-19 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Simon wrote: [...] > Maybe there is no automated testing for any Tor projects? At least a > quick search on the wiki only found [1] which lists possible ways to > test (but was created 7 months ago and apparently not updated since > and collecting dust) and [2] di

Re: [tor-dev] Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool

2012-12-19 Thread Simon
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:20 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Philipp Winter writes: > >> Hi there, >> >> Deliverable 6 for sponsor Z says: >> >>> 6. Start a tool that a censored developer can run to discover why their Tor >>> is >>> failing to connect: brainstorm a list of "things to check", and

Re: [tor-dev] Brainstorming a Tor censorship analysis tool

2012-12-19 Thread George Kadianakis
Philipp Winter writes: > Hi there, > > Deliverable 6 for sponsor Z says: > >> 6. Start a tool that a censored developer can run to discover why their Tor >> is >> failing to connect: brainstorm a list of "things to check", and sort them by >> how useful they'd be to check / how hard they'd be to