[tor-relays] bridge distribution mechanism

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Hello Tor universe,

One of the bridges I recently set up shows the Bridge distribution mechanism as https:

Question: Is this an issue or does it impact the functionality of the bridge?

Or maybe I made a boo boo during setup. Most of my bridges report Moat as the mechanism. Just trying to learn something.

Best,

potlatch

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Hi,

There are multiple bridges distributions mechanism. One is chosen at random when your bridge first come to life, each being perfectly fine :

  • moat: distributed automatically to Tor Browser users
  • https: distributed on bridge-db website after solving a captcha https://bridges.torproject.org/
  • email: distributed when sending an email to bridges@torproject.org)
  • reserved: distributed manually, mostly in-person I imagine

The only distribution mechanism you might want to worry about is “none”, it either mean your bridge is really young and bridge-db is not distributing it yet (it should only be in that state for about a few hours), or you decided to distribute this bridge yourself (no bridge-db involved, by setting BridgeDistribution none in your torrc), or your bridge is down.

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Le dim. 12 déc. 2021 à 10:32, potlatch via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> a écrit :

Hello Tor universe,

One of the bridges I recently set up shows the Bridge distribution mechanism as https:

Question: Is this an issue or does it impact the functionality of the bridge?

Or maybe I made a boo boo during setup. Most of my bridges report Moat as the mechanism. Just trying to learn something.

Best,

potlatch

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Right, exactly.

Two more documentation resources that could be helpful:

* The relay-search page makes each "Bridge distribution mechanism"
into a link to its entry on
https://bridges.torproject.org/info

* You can read about the original design idea here:
https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html#tth_sEc7.4

And for those who enjoy reading even more, check out these blog posts
which detail the open research areas:
* Strategies for getting more bridge addresses | The Tor Project
* Research problems: Ten ways to discover Tor bridges | The Tor Project
* Research problem: Five ways to test bridge reachability | The Tor Project

--Roger

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On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 10:52:42AM +0100, trinity pointard wrote:

There are multiple bridges distributions mechanism. One is chosen at random
when your bridge first come to life, each being perfectly fine :
- moat: distributed automatically to Tor Browser users
- https: distributed on bridge-db website after solving a captcha
https://bridges.torproject.org/
- email: distributed when sending an email to bridges@torproject.org)
- reserved: distributed manually, mostly in-person I imagine

The only distribution mechanism you might want to worry about is "none", it
either mean your bridge is really young and bridge-db is not distributing
it yet (it should only be in that state for about a few hours), or you
decided to distribute this bridge yourself (no bridge-db involved, by
setting `BridgeDistribution none` in your torrc), or your bridge is down.

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