Greeting everyone,
I've been running a TOR relay for a couple of years and as recently posted, my bandwidth usage has dribbled down to almost nothing.
I was going to pull the relay as the ubuntu box is basically doing nothing and not being utilised by TOR.
Then I saw the above email about being a bridge and thought, fine, I'll configure it to be a bridge and help out someone.
Tried to do it via the docker/script method, but soon realised that was outside my skill level (hey stop laughing! :P)
Setting ORPort to 443 as suggested.
I forwarded that port on the router and then tested it, but it said it was closed. So I thought my router was playing up.
I checked a few other ports using online tools and a few of them were closed.
I forwarded a new another port to some other software on another machine and that worked?!
So I realised the ports are open on the router but closed on the ubuntu machine.
I've played around with all the settings, changed by torrc file to a really basic one of:
RunAsDaemon 1
BridgeRelay 1
# Replace "TODO" with a Tor port of your choice. This port must be externally
# reachable. Avoid port 9001 because it's commonly associated with Tor and
# censors may be scanning the Internet for this port.
ORPort 9051
ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy
# Replace "TODO" with an obfs4 port of your choice. This port must be
# externally reachable. Avoid port 9001 because it's commonly associated with
# Tor and censors may be scanning the Internet for this port.
ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4
0.0.0.0:443# Local communication port between Tor and obfs4. Always set this to "auto".
# "Ext" means "extended", not "external". Don't try to set a specific port
# number, nor listen on 0.0.0.0.
ExtORPort auto
# Replace "<
address@email.com>" with your email address so we can contact you if
# there are problems with your bridge. This is optional but encouraged.
ContactInfo
blades1000@gmail.com# Pick a nickname that you like for your bridge. This is optional.
Nickname MelbTORbridge
I was able to monitor tor still with NYX, but that seems to have stopped and given me an error of:
Unable to authenticate: socket connection failed ([Errno 104] Connection reset by peer)
I was blowing a gasket yesterday and about to flush the whole machine, but left it for the day and figured I'd ask for help before I scrap it and go back to the original tor relay Torrc file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
