Well, I just tried, and no luck, see the attached video. I edited the torrc file included with the torrc file to run the bridge, and after doing this, it causes tor to immediately crash on startup before even making any logs.

 

This is what is entered in the torrc file, the same as what is entered in my tor expert bundle torrc

 

Nickname torland

 

 

SOCKSPort 0                # no local SOCKS proxy

 

ORPort 80                # public bridge must have an open ORPort

 

ExtORPort auto             # configure ExtORPort for obfs4proxy

 

ExitPolicy reject *:*      # no exits allowed

 

BridgeRelay 1              # relay won't show up in the public consensus

 

PublishServerDescriptor 1  # publish to the bridge authority

 

 

# use obfs4proxy to provide obfs4 on port 9003, 443

 

ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec C:\Users\keife\Desktop\Tor Browser test relay\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports

 

ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:443

 

ContactInfo keifer.bly@gmail.com

 

 

Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you. I am also wondering, can tor browser be configured to automatically install updates on startup? Thanks.

 

 

--Keifer

 

From: teor
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:40 AM
To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Possible to run a tor bridge/relay via tor browser?

 

Hi,



On 25 Mar 2020, at 06:35, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:

 

So I am currently running an OBFS4 bridge here:

 

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/386E99371B8CD938248940B754F16AAC54B5712B

 

It is being done via the TOR expert bundle on Windows 10. I am wondering, would it be possible to run the bridge via the tor that comes with the tor browser? This way, everything (tor, obfs4, etc). could be automatically updated for the bridge just when updating tor browser.

 

Probably.

 

Why don't you try it, and let us know how you go?

 

T