I am doing some of this (real-time checking of exit node status) as part of a new web site I am developing to allow server-side use of Tor along with user-selectable exit nodes by country. I will look into adding an ability to send email or RSS notifications to the contact on each server. Once up and running any server operators wanting to participate could go to something like http://www.pickaproxy.com/tor/servermonitoring/optin/ and let me know. Will that work, do you think?
. . . Wesley Kenzie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Dingledine Sent: May 5, 2007 5:45 PM To: or-talk@freehaven.net Subject: Tor server monitoring and notification service? Hi folks, I just added a new item to http://tor.eff.org/volunteer#Coding: Sometimes Tor servers crash, or the computers they're on fall off the network, or other accidents happen. Some Tor operators have expressed an interest in signing up to a "notifying" service that periodically checks whether their Tor server is healthy and sends them a reminder mail when it's not. Anybody want to write a few cgi scripts, a few web pages, and set up some sort of wget hack and/or something more complex like <a href="http://nagios.org/">Nagios</a> to do the monitoring? The first version could check just the directory port, e.g. looking through the cached network-status page for the right IP address and port and then asking for the "/tor/server/authority" page. Perhaps somebody here (or a group of somebodies) wants to tackle this? Thanks! --Roger