<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey,<div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="">"It takes some time for relay traffic to ramp up, this is especially true for guard relays but to a lesser extend also for exit relays. To understand this process, read about the </span><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay" class="">lifecycle of a new relay</a><span class="">.</span>”<div class="">Above snippet from  <a href="https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/" class="">Relay Post-install and good practices</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Murad.<br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 19 Dec 2021, at 17:47, - <<a href="mailto:damisame@gmail.com" class="">damisame@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello.<br class="">I tried to set up a bridge on an Ubuntu server and it seems working fine. I can connect to it manually from different devices using the bridge address from obfs4_bridgeline.txt file.<br class=""><br class="">However I dont see practically any traffic besides when I'm using it, and on "Relay Search" it shows as "Bridge distribution mechanism: None".<br class="">The bridge has been up and running for 10 days straigth.<br class=""><br class="">At first I only had the line: "PublishServerDescriptor 1".<br class="">After five days, I tried adding "BridgeRelay 1"  and "BridgeDistribution moat", "https" and "any".<br class="">Neither seems to have produced any change.<br class=""><br class="">Is this normal or could I have missed something on the configuration?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you.<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tor-relays mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tor-relays@lists.torproject.org" class="">tor-relays@lists.torproject.org</a><br class="">https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></span></div></div></body></html>