Louvian Lyndal:
> On 8/31/22 9:07 PM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> On 8/31/22 9:02 PM, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>>> On 8/31/22 8:37 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>>>> Ammar Faizi:
>>>>> On 8/31/22 2:25 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>>>>> Current usage:
>>>>>
>>>>>     - A single small scrapper app (SOCKSPort).
>>>>>
>>>>>       I configure many ports to get many exit IP addresses for
>>>>>       randomizing my identity.
>>>>
>>>> How is that supposed to work given that you only have one exit IP address
>>>> (68.183.184.174)?
>>>
>>> You misunderstood my email.
>>>
>>> I use the SOCKSPort for scraping, this gives me random exit IP. It doesn't
>>> use my exit IP for the scraper's outbound traffic. A simple way to use it
>>> is like this (I expose the ports publicly, you can try it too):
>>>
>>> ```bash
>>>
>>> for i in {64500..64599}; do
>>> curl -4 https://ipecho.net/plain --proxy socks5://68.183.184.174:$i; echo;
>>> done;
>>>
>>> ```
>>>
>>> It's slow, but it works.
>>>
>>>> And what are you actually scraping?
>>>
>>> The current is actively fetching https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/new.atom
>>> every 30 seconds. I don't see this as a big deal for the Tor network anyway.
>>
>> Just addition to that, previously, Louvian (in the CC) was scraping nhentai.net
>> with those SOCKSPort(s). But it was not a massive traffic.
> 
> I've stopped scraping it for a while, sometimes only running the
> scraper when I want to download a specific gallery number from nh. but
> yes, before it, the scraper was running a bit aggressively for content
> collecting purpose
> 
> I'll stop doing that, I actually enjoy reading nh online more than
> downloading. Our scraping activity (on nh) didn't actually have a
> strong intention, it was just for fun collecting data and happy doing
> code.

I see. Anyway, the DNS issue seems indeed resolved, thanks! I pushed a 
commit to get the badexit flag removed. Once a majority of directory 
authorities has picked it up your relay will be used as an exit again. 
(That might take a couple of hours at least, though)

Thanks for running relays,
Georg