Hi, I'm looking into some simple DNS related statistics in the Tor network. Specifically, I wrote a small patch that tells an operator the total number of cached entries for their node. I'd like to know about your DNS cache size, especially if you run a fast node!
Here's an example of this feature in use with my node 'badbits', a node that averages about 20-30Mb/s. I'm running a very alpha version where Nick merged my DNS cache counting patch: r...@badbits:~# tor --version Jun 02 17:15:22.293 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.0-alpha-dev. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686) Tor version 0.2.2.0-alpha-dev. r...@badbits:~# pkill -SIGUSR1 tor r...@badbits:~# grep -i dns /var/log/tor/notices.log Jun 02 17:14:33.597 [notice] Our DNS cache has 3486 entries. Jun 02 17:14:33.597 [notice] Our DNS cache size is approximately 1108920 bytes. Best, Jacob
