David,

I finally have time to migrate my loadbalanced Tor relay to a loadbalanced Tor obfs4proxy configuration.

In the process, I've been reviewing this thread and was hoping you could help with one clarification regarding your loadbalanced Tor snowflake configuration?

I noticed that you are using "AssumeReachable 1" in your torrc and was wondering whether you are exposing your ORPort to the World?

In the obfs4proxy configuration examples, it states that the ORPort needs to be open to the World, but it isn't clear in your torrc example whether you expose it to the World.

Is it truly necessary to expose the ORPort to the World in a pluggable transport configuration?

Thank you for your assistance.

Respectfully,


Gary
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On Friday, March 4, 2022, 05:55:48 PM MST, Gary C. New <garycnew@yahoo.com> wrote:


David,

> When I made my own combined graphs, I relied on different instances
having different nicknames. I don't know an easy way to distinguish the
descriptors of different instances otherwise.

Please let me know what the Tor Metrics Team decides, if/when they reimplement the change.

> You could conceivably do it by analyzing the periodicity of different
instances' publishing schedules. (Start one instance on the hour,
another at :10, another at :20, etc.) But that seems fragile, not to
mention annoying to deal with.

I agree. I'd rather manage unique nicknames.

Thanks, again.


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On Friday, March 4, 2022, 4:52:49 PM MST, David Fifield <david@bamsoftware.com> wrote:


On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 09:40:01PM +0000, Gary C. New wrote:
> I see that the metrics change has been reverted.
>
> If/When the metrics change is implemented, will loadbalanced Tor Relay Nodes
> need to be uniquely named or will they all be able to use the same nickname?

When I made my own combined graphs, I relied on different instances
having different nicknames. I don't know an easy way to distinguish the
descriptors of different instances otherwise.

You could conceivably do it by analyzing the periodicity of different
instances' publishing schedules. (Start one instance on the hour,
another at :10, another at :20, etc.) But that seems fragile, not to
mention annoying to deal with.

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