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Hello all:
Hope someone can help. I just spun up a new bridge that routinely says it’s offline even though the log says it’s externally visible. I added the bridge info to a Tor client on a separate machine and it gets out to the internet just fine. Any ideas?
Thanks

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Hej,

what kind of bridge type are you running?
WebTunnel for example is flickering on metrics for the moment.

You can check https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$YOURFINGERPRINT if everything is fine.

It’s also possible to check /var/lib/tor/stats/bridge-stats locally on the machine to see if there are clients other than you connected to your bridge…

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Thank you for getting back to me.

When I use the link you provided I get

no resources for the given id

my log as of this writing says:

2025-01-05T10:48:39.273836-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF systemd[1]: Started systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service.
2025-01-05T10:48:39.689190-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.
2025-01-05T10:48:39.983814-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: message repeated 3 times: [ Supervising 7 threads of 4 processes of 1 users.]
2025-01-05T10:48:39.987063-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: Successfully made thread 34836 of process 34731 owned by '1000' RT at priority 10.
2025-01-05T10:48:39.987145-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: Supervising 8 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.
2025-01-05T10:49:08.749686-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: message repeated 12 times: [ Supervising 8 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.]
2025-01-05T10:49:09.530028-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
2025-01-05T10:49:59.096507-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1736092199.094:154): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="/usr/sbin/cups-browsed" name="/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6" pid=31270 comm="cups-browsed" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=117 ouid=0
2025-01-05T10:49:59.245494-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1736092199.243:155): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file" profile="/usr/sbin/cups-browsed" name="/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6" pid=31270 comm="cups-browsed" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=117 ouid=0
2025-01-05T10:52:14.572309-05:00 mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF rtkit-daemon[1091]: Supervising 8 threads of 5 processes of 1 users.

so it would seem that it's running unless I'm mistaken.

it's an obfs4 bridge.
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On Sunday, January 5th, 2025 at 5:42 AM, atari via Tor Project Forum noreply@forum.torproject.org wrote:

atari
January 5

Hej,

what kind of bridge type are you running?
WebTunnel for example is flickering on metrics for the moment.

You can check https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$YOURFINGERPRINT if everything is fine.

It’s also possible to check /var/lib/tor/stats/bridge-stats locally on the machine to see if there are clients other than you connected to your bridge…

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This log doesn’t look related to tor or obfs4 to me.

Did you use the hashed fingerprint of your bridge when you checked the link atari provided?

If you just expose your bridges pluggable transport and not the orport it is quite common for your bridge to be shown as offline on the metrics page. This doesn’t necessarily mean, that it isn’t working.

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Are you maybe running behind a NAT/Router? Did you forward the necessary ports and tried using the bridge from a separate network?

#Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log

→ Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log

Uncommenting this in your torrc will enable logging to the specified location and after a restart of tor you should get more viable information regarding the status of you bridge.

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I entered my bridge information into a separate computer running the browser and was able to get out to the internet. By this I’m guessing I should be ok despite what the metric site says?

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On Monday, January 6th, 2025 at 4:35 AM, atari via Tor Project Forum noreply@forum.torproject.org wrote:

atari
January 6

darkhoodie:

mxh-HP-Compaq-Pro-6300-SFF

Are you maybe running behind a NAT/Router? Did you forward the necessary ports and tried using the bridge from a separate network?

#Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log

→ Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log

Uncommenting this in your torrc will enable logging to the specified location and after a restart of tor you should get more viable information regarding the status of you bridge.

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Sorry, with the information you were giving it is hard to tell if everything works fine. But no resources for the given id is an indication something is wrong.

https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$YOURFINGERPRINT

Replace $YOURFINGERPRINT with the string you find in this file after your bridge name: /var/lib/tor/fingerprint

Also try using your bridge from a different network e.g. a mobile phone not attached to your network the bridge is running on (turn Wi-Fi off and use mobile internet for testing)

Also enabling the logs as described in an earlier post might help to get a better idea what is going on…

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I think the problem is the tor metrics page. Sometimes it says the bridge is online and other times it says it’s offline. And I haven’t restarted the service for 3 days. I’m able to connect with my bridge details on a separate browser so I think it’s running fine.
Thank you for the reply

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On Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 at 5:22 AM, atari via Tor Project Forum noreply@forum.torproject.org wrote:

atari
January 7

Sorry, with the information you were giving it is hard to tell if everything works fine. But no resources for the given id is an indication something is wrong.

https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=$YOURFINGERPRINT

Replace $YOURFINGERPRINT with the string you find in this file after your bridge name: /var/lib/tor/fingerprint

Also try using your bridge from a different network e.g. a mobile phone not attached to your network the bridge is running on (turn Wi-Fi off and use mobile internet for testing)

Also enabling the logs as described in an earlier post might help to get a better idea what is going on…

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