On Freitag, 30. August 2024 14:35:26 CEST Alessandro Greco via tor-relays wrote:
I noticed that you have a lot of Bridges active and in this regard I wanted
I have different subnets on the servers and each bridge has a different IP+IPv6.
Until 3 years ago you could get 1 IP for less than 1,- €/month. I had one for SSH and bridge and others for relays on each server. Nowadays IP + setup fee is so expensive, it is better to take KVM offers for 1-3$/month.
to ask you if under the same network I can activate multiple Bridges and if the answer is yes: - Is it possible and advisable to start multiple bridges on the same machine (perhaps virtualizing the environments) - It is only possible to do this through multiple computers
On Debian systems you can easily do this with tor-instance-create: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024-July/021715.html
In general, it is not a good idea to have multiple bridges under one IP with different bridge distribution mechanisms.¹ The probability that one will be discovered is higher and then all will be blocked.
But you can, for example, have several Tor instances on one IP. A public bridge, a hidden bridge for you and friends and some hidden services.
¹Meskio has committed a fix so that bridges with the same IP get the same bridge distribution mechanisms. At the last Relay Meetup, this merge was not yet activated. But it should be now. I can't find the Gitlab issue at the moment.