tor-webwml.git

@@ -103,11 +103,6 @@ SSL <a href="<page documentation>#Developers">SVN repository?</a></li>

 <a id="Coding"></a>

 <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Coding">Coding and Design</a></h2>

-<p>Want to spend your <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/">Google Summer

-of Code</a> working on Tor? Great.

-<a href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SummerOfCode">Read

-more about Tor and GSoC</a>, and see if any of the below ideas catch

-your eye.</p>

 <ol>

 <li>Tor servers don't work well on Windows XP. On

 Windows, Tor uses the standard <tt>select()</tt> system

@@ -136,6 +131,16 @@ will probably receive hundreds of queries a minute, so some smart

 algorithms are in order. Bonus points if it does active testing through

 each exit node to find out what IP address it's really exiting from.

 <a href="<svnsandbox>doc/contrib/torbl-design.txt">Read more here</a>.</li>

+<li>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.</li>

 <li>It would be great to have a LiveCD that includes the latest

 versions of Tor, Polipo or Privoxy, Firefox, Gaim+OTR, etc. There are

 two challenges here: first is documenting the system and choices well