Hello: I had a power outage recently and I've restarted my bridge i.e. restarted the daemon and tor, and when I check the Relay Search section of Tor Metrics, it's taking a long time for my bridge to show as online again. Also, not sure if this matters, but I am running Linux Mint, and recently upgraded to the latest version, 19.3. Any ideas? Thank you.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 07:08:31PM +0000, Anonforpeace wrote:
I had a power outage recently and I've restarted my bridge i.e. restarted the daemon and tor, and when I check the Relay Search section of Tor Metrics, it's taking a long time for my bridge to show as online again. Also, not sure if this matters, but I am running Linux Mint, and recently upgraded to the latest version, 19.3. Any ideas?
The way to help us diagnose better would be to provide the Relay Search URL for your bridge. That is, you can look up your bridge by its "hashed fingerprint", and people can look at that page, with anonymized information about it, without learning anything that would help us find out where the bridge is. Also, does "taking a long time" means that it eventually returns? Or it is still listed as offline? The first step would be to look at the logs, and see if it thinks it's reachable and it's publishing its server descriptor. Who knows, maybe your Mint upgrade added a firewall that is blocking all incoming connections. The next step would be to put together your bridge address, and configure a Tor Browser to use it, and see if it works. If it's a "vanilla" bridge then your bridge line is just ip address and port. If it's an obfs4 bridge, then https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ could be helpful. Good luck! --Roger
Thanks for reply!! Turns out it finally did show up on the metrics site about 30 to 60 mins later so we're all good! I should have trusted what I read in the terminal when it said it was reachable from the outside. Thanks again! -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 27, 2019, 4:06 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 07:08:31PM +0000, Anonforpeace wrote:
I had a power outage recently and I've restarted my bridge i.e. restarted the daemon and tor, and when I check the Relay Search section of Tor Metrics, it's taking a long time for my bridge to show as online again. Also, not sure if this matters, but I am running Linux Mint, and recently upgraded to the latest version, 19.3. Any ideas?
The way to help us diagnose better would be to provide the Relay Search URL for your bridge. That is, you can look up your bridge by its "hashed fingerprint", and people can look at that page, with anonymized information about it, without learning anything that would help us find out where the bridge is.
Also, does "taking a long time" means that it eventually returns? Or it is still listed as offline?
The first step would be to look at the logs, and see if it thinks it's reachable and it's publishing its server descriptor. Who knows, maybe your Mint upgrade added a firewall that is blocking all incoming connections.
The next step would be to put together your bridge address, and configure a Tor Browser to use it, and see if it works. If it's a "vanilla" bridge then your bridge line is just ip address and port. If it's an obfs4 bridge, then https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/post-install/ could be helpful.
Good luck! --Roger
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On 12/26/2019 07:08 PM, Anonforpeace wrote:
Hello:
I had a power outage recently and I've restarted my bridge i.e. restarted the daemon and tor, and when I check the Relay Search section of Tor Metrics, it's taking a long time for my bridge to show as online again. Also, not sure if this matters, but I am running Linux Mint, and recently upgraded to the latest version, 19.3. Any ideas?
Let me know how this goes, as I'm switching from CentOS to Mint soon.
It went fine. The problem was me. I brought the bridge back up in the terminal and when I check the status in the Tor relay site it took almost an hour for it to show back online when I should have trusted what I read in the terminal when it said it was visible from the outside. So for future reference, after rebooting and restarting a bridge, wait awhile before expecting to see it showing as online in Tor Metrics. -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 30, 2019, 3:17 PM, Kenneth Freeman wrote:
On 12/26/2019 07:08 PM, Anonforpeace wrote:
Hello:
I had a power outage recently and I've restarted my bridge i.e. restarted the daemon and tor, and when I check the Relay Search section of Tor Metrics, it's taking a long time for my bridge to show as online again. Also, not sure if this matters, but I am running Linux Mint, and recently upgraded to the latest version, 19.3. Any ideas?
Let me know how this goes, as I'm switching from CentOS to Mint soon.
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