On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 03:45:23PM +0000, nottryingtobelame@protonmail.com wrote:
While resetting my bridge, I discovered that setting OR Port to auto causes the port not to survive restarts. After the OR Port was randomized, I opened it on my router firewall. Then I restarted the tor service using "sudo service tor restart", and while watching logs I noticed the OR Port was now different, meaning I would need to update my firewall again.
You are correct, this was a mistake on my part. For what it's worth, I just filed https://bugs.torproject.org/31103 because of this. Thanks for bringing up this issue!
Seems better to set a single port and leave it at that, doesn't it?
I agree, asking operators to choose their own OR and obfs4 port should cause the least surprise. It also serves as a reminder that both ports need to be reachable for obfs4 to work.
I will update the obfs4 setup guide accordingly.
Cheers, Philipp