Hi Michael, Quoting Michael Rogers via anti-censorship-team (2025-10-25 12:27:00)
The Briar team's nightly tests of our bridge config have shown that some of the default obfs4 bridges listed in the Tor expert bundle's pt_config.json have been down for some time:
192.95.36.142:443 193.11.166.194:27015 193.11.166.194:27020 193.11.166.194:27025 209.148.46.65:443 45.145.95.6:27015
Of these, 193.11.166.194 immediately rejects connection attempts on the listed ports, while connection attempts to 192.95.36.142:443 time out. The other two accept TCP connections but are very slow, so Tor can't bootstrap through them in a reasonable amount of time.
Is this a known issue, and is it expected to be temporary, or should we exclude these bridges from our config?
Is been a while that some builtin bridges are failing, we've been tracking it on this issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/141 But I've been neglecting acting on it. I'll look into this on the comming weeks and update the pt_config.json file. BTW you can update those bridges from the moat api, and I'm thinking on making it so there only lists the ones that are functional: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/blob/main/doc/moat... Thanks for having a look to this. -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.