On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 09:28:23PM +0200, lists@for-privacy.net wrote:
A few months ago there was a recommendation to not exposing OrPort for bridges. This had the unpleasant effect that all bridges were 'red' on Tor Metrics, even though they were running perfectly fine. I noticed yesterday after the meeting that everything is 'green' again. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/ForPrivacyNET
Thank you, I believe these 6 people did that: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/318
Right -- I think we are still in the process of fixing that issue. The current situation as I understand it is that bridgestrap measures whether your obfs4 port is reachable, and it uploads these results to the metrics sites, and the metrics sites use them if available instead of looking at Running.
But currently the "uploads to metrics" step happens once a day, while bridgestrap produces results way more frequently than that.
And in the past there were surprises where the metrics side would say something like "I'll call you running if bridgestrap said you were reachable within the past three hours" -- which is a great design if you are getting the bridgestrap results rapidly, but not great if you get them once a day.
So, I'm glad to see that your relay was green again for a bit, but I fear a bit more work remains until we get there *consistently*. :)
--Roger