Got some shirts years ago, this time I really want a hoodie…
When I get 10 bridges up (added 4 so far) I’ll share the ‘Bridge obfs4’ lines with Gus, as I understand is a way to be eligible.
Hi all! I just had troubles (ip blacklisted) running my relay, so I decided to run a bridge. This campaign is just perfect for me!
Some questions: I set up the torrc as shown in the instruction but I have a doubt, should also DirPort be set-up on torrc and opened on firewall?
My hashed fingerprint url is
as shown in the tor log, but at the moment it is not showing up anything (“no resources for the given id” message) and the tor log states:
Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its
│ ORPort(s) at :443. Relays do not publish descriptors until
│ their ORPort and DirPort are reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports,
│ address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
So I ask you if you can confirm DirPort must be set up too.
When everything is working sould I post there the metrics url and send an email with full line to frontdesk@torproject.org to partecipate am I right?
Thanks a lot!
Brian
No, you need to open your ORPort and you will see message saying that the port is reachable in your Tor logs. After ~3 hours you will be able to find your bridge on Metrics portal.
Hi @gus thanks a lot for the fast answer!
I am running on raspbian (Debian Stretch) but I cannot find the file obfs4_bridgeline.txt in the entire filesystem. Any help?
Bridge 33ADB77CD707E0EDF1711DBE7BEC63C6C876E480 advertises:
* obfs4: functional
Last tested: 2021-11-21 12:37:49.893505938 +0000 UTC (18m2.992117131s ago)
But no file /var/lib/tor/pt_state/obfs4_bridgeline.txt is present, command find / -name obfs* has no useful result (finds binary and docs but no bridgeline). I installed tor from sources (latest version, 0.4.6.8), don’t know if this can help… any suggestion?
Thank you!
If you try that Tor will complain in the logs and ignore the Dirport setting. It is mutual exclusive apparently. Maybe to prevent bridges to be identified as such too easily?
I really like hoodies!
if Tor will get support for IPv6 only, i can create a second bridge (or relay / exit node…)
would love to create 10 more bridges but currently i don’t have the resources…
for now i going to keep this one running and hope i don’t lose the keys…
How hard is the static IPv4 address requirement? I have IPs that are technically dynamic but are practically equivalent to static as they will stay unchanged year after year, given no extended power outages, which are unusual.
New here so hoping this is an okay place to ask, how long does it take a bridge to show up under the Relay Search? I’m hoping to spin some up and help out and have just done my first one but cant see it yet no idea if its something ive done my end or if it will just take a bit to be validated
once you setup your OBFS Bridge it will start showing up as soon as 24 hours after inital run. However it can take a few days to like a week for it to be properly used by the network.
If you have system with a private range IPv4 and a public/global IPv6 address, I think you can still run tor. It will just detect that the IPv6 is publicly available and IPv4 is not. It works that way the other way around any way.
Even if you do not have at least 10 Mbit/s of available bandwidth you can still help the Tor
network by running a [Tor bridge with obfs4 support](https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge).
In that case you should have at least 1 MBit/s of available bandwidth.
If your IPv4 is pretty stable it should be fine. I mean, if it rotates once per year is not a problem (could be even good if the bridge got blocked), if it rotates once per week it will be a problem.
So I think for your situation is fine and will be great if you host a bridge.
i have already one bridge on my IPv4 address, but i don’t wanna fully expose that address, that’s why i do have a bridge (its a little bit more ‘hidden’).