commit 51bdfe59cad37a5f2ffdac3b5f40fe5e2f402a2e Author: David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com Date: Sun Mar 16 23:17:32 2014 -0700
Use 5 flashproxy bridge lines.
flashproxy-client seeks to maintain 5 connected proxies (it re-registers if there are fewer). It makes sense for tor to know that there is more than one proxy behind the pluggable transport, so that in case your first proxy is dodgy or slow, you can try another one.
Some testing in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10429#comment:2 shows an increased success rate of 95% with 5 bridge lines (versus 90% for 1 bridge line) in downloads spaced 10 minutes apart. --- torrc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/torrc b/torrc index b8a2439..61f8eb6 100644 --- a/torrc +++ b/torrc @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ UseBridges 1 # The address and port are ignored by the client transport plugin. Bridge flashproxy 0.0.1.0:1 +Bridge flashproxy 0.0.1.0:2 +Bridge flashproxy 0.0.1.0:3 +Bridge flashproxy 0.0.1.0:4 +Bridge flashproxy 0.0.1.0:5 # Change the second number here (9000) to the number of a port that can # receive connections from the Internet (the port for which you # configured port forwarding).