On Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 at 08:46, Eritque arcus via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:

Hi,

I don't know why but my bridge relay marked as down but I can connect to it with my Tor browser. Nyx can successfully detected my traffic and two others join after my traffic(but in other time it's just ~700B/s w/o connection). And every-time I restart the tor service, it will up for some hours. There is no error or warning in log.

More context: I setup my first relay on yesterday(>18hrs ago) on Ubuntu 24, Tor 0.4.8.18 following the guide; It's on KVM/QEMU VPS with some of my other services.

the status is right here: <https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=A69AD85C2E175BD0F753E1CCBE5D4BA371149685> and <https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A69AD85C2E175BD0F753E1CCBE5D4BA371149685>.

Do I need to allow some extra ports? right now I only accept the ORPort and block any others. Or it may relatives with my VPS ISP?

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Best,
Eritque Arcus

Hello everyone,

I am actually experiencing the same problem, but with a

OBFS4 bridge I've set up over a year ago on FreeBSD.

The bridge keeps getting marked as down for a few hours

and I am receiving Tor weather down mail each time, even

though it is always online and reachable (ORPort + OBFS4).

I've last tested with Tor on a smartphone and tcpdump,

connecting with the bridge line worked both with the IPv4

and IPv6 address, both times I could see traffic from it's IPs.

Also while typing this message, I am getting at least

10 - 20 Mbps, with spikes above 60 Mbps, all while the

bridge is reportedly "offline". In my monitoring I also

can't see any periods with no traffic at all.

All firewall and NAT rules allow any traffic from the internet,

matching the ORPort or OBFS4 port in torrc. Outgoing traffic

is allowed everywhere to the internet.

Status:

https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=159DAE6BC567CAE6F87281077518B6593C49E131

Relay search:

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/159DAE6BC567CAE6F87281077518B6593C49E131

Greetings,