On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 10:52:42AM +0100, trinity pointard wrote:
There are multiple bridges distributions mechanism. One is chosen at random when your bridge first come to life, each being perfectly fine :
- moat: distributed automatically to Tor Browser users
- https: distributed on bridge-db website after solving a captcha
https://bridges.torproject.org/
- email: distributed when sending an email to bridges@torproject.org)
- reserved: distributed manually, mostly in-person I imagine
The only distribution mechanism you might want to worry about is "none", it either mean your bridge is really young and bridge-db is not distributing it yet (it should only be in that state for about a few hours), or you decided to distribute this bridge yourself (no bridge-db involved, by setting `BridgeDistribution none` in your torrc), or your bridge is down.
Right, exactly.
Two more documentation resources that could be helpful:
* The relay-search page makes each "Bridge distribution mechanism" into a link to its entry on https://bridges.torproject.org/info
* You can read about the original design idea here: https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html#t...
And for those who enjoy reading even more, check out these blog posts which detail the open research areas: * https://blog.torproject.org/strategies-getting-more-bridge-addresses * https://blog.torproject.org/research-problems-ten-ways-discover-tor-bridges * https://blog.torproject.org/research-problem-five-ways-test-bridge-reachabil...
--Roger