Today at 18:10 UTC I turned off the CDN endpoint formerly used by meek-amazon. Tor Browser switched away from this endpoint 7 months ago (https://bugs.torproject.org/21918), but Orbot only recently switched. Just before I turned it off, the endpoint was still being heavily used, so it's possible that some users will have been suddenly disconnected.
== How to fix ==
Users should upgrade their Tor Browser or Orbot. Tor Browser 7.0.8 Orbot 15.5
Users can use meek-azure if they need connectivity in order to upgrade.
== Technical information ==
d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net is the old, deactivated endpoint. d2cly7j4zqgua7.cloudfront.net is the current endpoint.
If a user has a custom bridge line that looks like: meek 0.0.2.0:2 B9E7141C594AF25699E0079C1F0146F409495296 url=https://d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net/ front=a0.awsstatic.com they need to change it to: meek 0.0.2.0:2 B9E7141C594AF25699E0079C1F0146F409495296 url=https://d2cly7j4zqgua7.cloudfront.net/ front=a0.awsstatic.com Most users will not be using custom bridge lines like this and only need to upgrade.
On 11/1/17 14:54, David Fifield wrote:
Today at 18:10 UTC I turned off the CDN endpoint formerly used by meek-amazon. Tor Browser switched away from this endpoint 7 months ago (https://bugs.torproject.org/21918), but Orbot only recently switched. Just before I turned it off, the endpoint was still being heavily used, so it's possible that some users will have been suddenly disconnected.
Onion Browser migrated to the new meek-amazon bridge in 1.7.5 (week of May 21, 2017), shorty after the change landed in Tor Browser. https://github.com/mtigas/OnionBrowser/commit/6ec0fdfcb5f44573a5f2a91b1850ce...
Affected users should upgrade to Onion Browser 1.7.5 or newer to continue to use meek-amazon.
(AFAIK, any iOS device that can run a version of Onion Browser with pluggable transports support -- landed in 1.6.0 in August 2016, iOS 8 or later required -- can upgrade to 1.7.5 or newer.)
I know Onion Browser isn't in the purview of the Tor Project support team, but just putting this out there in case y'all get any inquiries related to this.
Cheers,
tor-project@lists.torproject.org
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