Hello,

> On 14 Jul 2021, at 22:03, nusenu <nusenu-lists(a)riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>> As far as I can see (couldn’t find any up to date source code)
>> onionoo is written in Java. Is that an obstacle and are there any
>> blockers why libloc cannot be used apart from that there are no
>> bindings for Java available?
> 
> to avoid misunderstandings:
> I'm not an onionoo developer, I'm just an onionoo user that
> is affected by the reduced ASN coverage after their geoip DB
> switch from maxmind. Since they are really thin on resources
> I figured getting this fixed upstream would help them, others and me.

Ah okay, I think I did indeed assume that.

And yes, fixing things upstream is always the best way!

> your question reminded me of this past discussion on this gitlab issue:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/relay-search/-/issues/40004#note_2731654
> 
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/onionoo/-/commit/495bb034819766b53bbf1c235b1c27c8188e3edb

Yeah, that is a little bit sad to see. The graph search would probably be substantially faster than parsing a text file.

-Michael

> 
> onionoo source:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/onionoo/-/tree/master
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> nusenu