OBFS-4 Bridge Relay with 0 clients seen in more than one month
Hi, I'm running a Tor relay which is working fine and a Tor Bridge Relay on port 995 (ORPort is 465) which is reachable from the outside that has been running for more than one month and has never been contacted by any client. I've tried to use it with Tor Browser from outside my own network and it works fine. Does it take so long for an OBFS4 bridge relay to become known and used by someone? Best regards, Freedom For All -- _____________________________________________________________ PGP Key: 0DA8 7293 D561 3AEE A3C0 7F63 101F 316A F30E ECB4 IRC Nick: fr33d0m4all (OFTC & Freenode) _____________________________________________________________
Hi, I'm running a Tor relay which is working fine and a Tor Bridge Relay on port 995 (ORPort is 465) which is reachable from the outside that has been running for more than one month and has never been contacted by any client. I've tried to use it with Tor Browser from outside my own network and it works fine. Does it take so long for an OBFS4 bridge relay to become known and used by someone?
Best regards, Freedom For All Hello, I started one bridge with on 443 port in April 2 on standalone IP address and it did not have any traffic for about a week IIRC. Now it is used quite well: Jun 02 17:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 29 days 17:59 hours, with 43 circuits open. I've sent 137.71 GB and received 131.83 GB. Jun 02 17:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 27 unique clients. Jun 02 23:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 29 days 23:59 hours, with 63 circuits open. I've sent 140.81 GB and received 134.84 GB. Jun 02 23:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 38 unique clients
Although I do not use only obfs4 transport, here is line from torrc: ServerTransportPlugin obfs2,obfs3,obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy managed I suspect that if IP address is in Tor consensus then it's not that good as if bridge was on separate IP address. Main reason is because bridges are supposed to be "hidden". As I understood in your setup you have regular relay on port 465 and bridge on port 995, sharing the same IP address.
I've wondered about this myself. I'm currently running my longtime relay Anosognosia (ORPort 9001, DirPort 9030) on my primary 32-bit Linux box, and a spanking new obsf4 bridge relay on AnosognosiaToo, my secondary, 64-bit Linux box (ORPort9001), but although the latter has been getting traffic on test circuits I keep getting the error message that my server has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. In the past six hours I've had no unique clients, but given this thread I'm going to let it ride. The two machines pull double duty as 24/7 heating units during the colder months, so what would be their most effective contribution to the Tor ecology? Relay/relay, relay/bridge, or bridge/bridge? (During the hottest week I only keep one computer going and perforce operate a solo relay.) On 06/02/2016 06:32 PM, demfloro wrote:
Hi, I'm running a Tor relay which is working fine and a Tor Bridge Relay on port 995 (ORPort is 465) which is reachable from the outside that has been running for more than one month and has never been contacted by any client. I've tried to use it with Tor Browser from outside my own network and it works fine. Does it take so long for an OBFS4 bridge relay to become known and used by someone?
Best regards, Freedom For All Hello, I started one bridge with on 443 port in April 2 on standalone IP address and it did not have any traffic for about a week IIRC. Now it is used quite well: Jun 02 17:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 29 days 17:59 hours, with 43 circuits open. I've sent 137.71 GB and received 131.83 GB. Jun 02 17:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 27 unique clients. Jun 02 23:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 29 days 23:59 hours, with 63 circuits open. I've sent 140.81 GB and received 134.84 GB. Jun 02 23:19:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 38 unique clients
Although I do not use only obfs4 transport, here is line from torrc: ServerTransportPlugin obfs2,obfs3,obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy managed
I suspect that if IP address is in Tor consensus then it's not that good as if bridge was on separate IP address. Main reason is because bridges are supposed to be "hidden". As I understood in your setup you have regular relay on port 465 and bridge on port 995, sharing the same IP address. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
The two machines pull double duty as 24/7 heating units during the colder months, so what would be their most effective contribution to the Tor ecology? Relay/relay, relay/bridge, or bridge/bridge? (During the hottest week I only keep one computer going and perforce operate a solo relay.) I guess better would be relay/relay if bandwidth is not the issue. According to FAQ[1] running bridge is recommended in that case.
I run this bridge on one of my VPS because this hosting provider is against proxies and they give only 1 Tb traffic per month. They are not DO. Bridge should not give them any troubles. [1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge
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demfloro -
Dmitrii Tcvetkov
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fr33d0m4all -
Kenneth Freeman