atari
December 4, 2024, 10:34am
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https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?lookup=$hashed_fingerprint
https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$hashed_fingerprint
May someone explain to me, what happens in the background? When and why are bridges (especially webtunnel) shown on bridges.torproject.org
Some of my (Docker)-bridges do not show up on bridges.torproject.org “no resources for the given id” but are present on onionoo.torproject.org
atari
December 5, 2024, 8:10am
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What I have learned so far, is that all bridges report their existence to the Bridge Authority (see Serge and previously Bifroest/Tonga ).
Its sanitized descriptors are published and may be found here: collector.torproject.org and can be searched “easily” with Onionoo .
Before October 2024 the non-sanitized descriptors where sent to BridgeDB which is now superseded by Rdsys .
Before handing out Bridges to the user they get regular testing by bridgestrap . Results are eventually published at https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$hashed_fingerprint and may also be found here: collector.torproject.org .
So if you set up a bridge and it is working for you, but not published at https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$hashed_fingerprint , you can hopefully investigate what seems to be the issue…
Finally a bridge gets assigned to a pool and gets a distribution method assigned (if not set in torrc to a specific distribution). This may be checked here: collector.torproject.org .