Bridge distribution mechanism None

Support Relay Operator
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Hi,

Any ideea?

  • obfs4: dysfunctional
    Error: timed out waiting for bridge descriptor
    Last tested: 2023-09-24 15:01:31.836705697 +0000 UTC (6h34m44.938049616s ago)

Sep 24 07:37:18 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for circuit 482 (a Measuring circuit timeout 3-hop circuit in state doing handshakes with channel state open) to 60000ms. However, it appears>
Sep 24 09:18:03 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for circuit 1182 (a Measuring circuit timeout 3-hop circuit in state doing handshakes with channel state open) to 60000ms. However, it appear>
Sep 24 12:11:09 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for circuit 2147 (a Measuring circuit timeout 3-hop circuit in state doing handshakes with channel state open) to 60000ms. However, it appear>
Sep 24 12:29:05 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: Heartbeat: Tor’s uptime is 6:00 hours, with 6 circuits open. I’ve sent 39.77 MB and received 30.94 MB. I’ve received 32 connections on IPv4 and 32 on IPv6. I’ve made 21 connections >
Sep 24 12:29:05 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: While not bootstrapping, fetched this many bytes: 5659580 (server descriptor fetch); 415 (server descriptor upload); 300584 (consensus network-status fetch); 17093 (microdescriptor >
Sep 24 12:29:05 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: Heartbeat: Since last heartbeat message, I have seen 40 unique clients.
Sep 24 15:06:51 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for circuit 3641 (a Measuring circuit timeout 3-hop circuit in state doing handshakes with channel state open) to 60000ms. However, it appear>
Sep 24 17:38:31 hkg3-lite-2023091722075641 Tor[45479]: New control connection opened.

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I don’t see any issue in the logs + Nyx
Is it possible that distribution mechanism remains None hence the bridge is not advertised because bridge is located in Hong Kong?

I verified manually if the bridge is working and all is good but unfortunately is not distributed :frowning:

3

It’s hard to say whats going on without knowing what you have in your torrc regarding bridge distribution. Knowing what you have for BridgeDistribution and PublishServerDescriptor would help.

See also here: How do I change my bridge distribution method? | Tor Project | Support

4

It was not relevant to share torrc config because I have this config to other 4 bridges and there I have no issue with distribution mechanism.

Also here I have requested a new identity, I have rebooted the server and it seems now the distribution mechanism is ok.

Will monitor the situation and post updates

5

Have you checked you can connect to Tor through your bridge, for instance by pasting its bridge line in TorBrowser?

6

Yes and is ok.
I verified manually if the bridge is working and all is good but unfortunately is not distributed :frowning:

7

I have a similar problem. And a quick search indicates other people have had issues where a Bridge relay is up for a while (ie. 6+ months), then switches to a distribution of none, but no-one seems to get a good answer.

My Bridge:

obfs4: functional
Bandwidth Ratio: 0.863743
Last tested: 2023-10-02 20:34:31.621618943 +0000 UTC

On the torproject metrics page I have good user count and bandwidth throughtput, everything normal except distribution changed to none from HTTP for no reason about 2 months ago.

Is this just an anomoly? Is it a design feature, that once a certain amount of throughput is reached TOR decides it doesn’t need more clients or to be advertised?

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@Jacko if you didn’t specified an bridge mechanism in torrc i guess it’s normal to change. TOR decides what is better/what are the needs for obfs4 and chages the mechanism.

Meanwhile my obfs4 is stable if it doesn’t change again to None until the end of the week i will close this thread

  • obfs4: functional
    Last tested: 2023-10-03 02:30:30.338920709 +0000 UTC (12h23m55.608385276s ago)
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I think there was a connection/filtering issue because rvery couple of hours the mechanism was displayed as None, then was again on Settings then again None/Settings/etc

Also in a month has did only 50 Gbps of traffic (much less than my snowflake(s) are doing daily) so I decided to stop it and to never rent a VPS in Hong Kong for any TOR related server

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