Bridges more or less function as guard relays except their IP addresses are not known. Having a bridge with an IP address that's already know somehow defeats the purpose.

As far as I'm concerned the list of relays should not be public. Only exit relays need to be known for liability reasons. Once we stop publishing IP addresses of relays, the need for bridges will be greatly reduced.

That being said, I believe if your relay is no longer a relay for a week, it will be removed from the public relay list. Not sure if it will be removed from the censors' list.

From: "Isaac Grover, Aileron I.T."
Sent: Tue Oct 04 12:15:52 EDT 2022
To: "tor-relays@lists.torproject.org"
Subject: [tor-relays] Moving middle relays to bridges?

Good morning,

According to tor metrics, there have been nearly three times the number of relays as bridges over the last three months so I would like to move my handful of middle relays to bridges. They will keep their same IP address. Is there a best practice with regards to doing this so the directories don’t get confused?

Make your day great,
Isaac Grover



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