[tor-relays] bridge distribution mechanism

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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