When running a WebTunnel bridge, what types of IPs are better for serving requests? My background is with self-hosted home-lab type of setups. There are a number of different ways for homelabs to accept inbound https connections. A few examples:
- Forward a port on a home router. - Rent a cloud VM/VPS and tunnel a port from the VPS's IP. - Have a CDN tunnel/forward requests. - VPN hybrid solutions like Tailscale Funnel.
Are any of these better than others for hosting a WebTunnel bridge? Should cloud provider IPs be preferred over residential IPs, for example, considering that is where most web servers are hosted? Are large CDNs preferred over individual cloud VMs? Is it better to use a different IP for WebTunnel than the IP that runs the OR port (i.e. host OR port on home IP and WebTunnel from a cloud-based IP)?
I'm mainly asking to determine which way helps the broadest number of Tor users. And which is less likely to be blocked in the future. What are the best practices?
PS: Thanks for the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and the documentation on how to run it. It was very helpful and made setup easy.
Can I get a copy of the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and documentation? Thanks
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 6:43 AM tor-home at encryptfirst.com < tor-home@encryptfirst.com> wrote:
When running a WebTunnel bridge, what types of IPs are better for serving requests? My background is with self-hosted home-lab type of setups. There are a number of different ways for homelabs to accept inbound https connections. A few examples:
- Forward a port on a home router.
- Rent a cloud VM/VPS and tunnel a port from the VPS's IP.
- Have a CDN tunnel/forward requests.
- VPN hybrid solutions like Tailscale Funnel.
Are any of these better than others for hosting a WebTunnel bridge? Should cloud provider IPs be preferred over residential IPs, for example, considering that is where most web servers are hosted? Are large CDNs preferred over individual cloud VMs? Is it better to use a different IP for WebTunnel than the IP that runs the OR port (i.e. host OR port on home IP and WebTunnel from a cloud-based IP)?
I'm mainly asking to determine which way helps the broadest number of Tor users. And which is less likely to be blocked in the future. What are the best practices?
PS: Thanks for the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and the documentation on how to run it. It was very helpful and made setup easy. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
I followed this documentation: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtu...
Near the bottom is a link to a docker-compose file that references the "thetorproject/webtunnel-bridge:latest" Docker image.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 8:01 AM Jordan Hillis jhillis515@gmail.com wrote:
Can I get a copy of the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and documentation? Thanks
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 6:43 AM tor-home at encryptfirst.com < tor-home@encryptfirst.com> wrote:
When running a WebTunnel bridge, what types of IPs are better for serving requests? My background is with self-hosted home-lab type of setups. There are a number of different ways for homelabs to accept inbound https connections. A few examples:
- Forward a port on a home router.
- Rent a cloud VM/VPS and tunnel a port from the VPS's IP.
- Have a CDN tunnel/forward requests.
- VPN hybrid solutions like Tailscale Funnel.
Are any of these better than others for hosting a WebTunnel bridge? Should cloud provider IPs be preferred over residential IPs, for example, considering that is where most web servers are hosted? Are large CDNs preferred over individual cloud VMs? Is it better to use a different IP for WebTunnel than the IP that runs the OR port (i.e. host OR port on home IP and WebTunnel from a cloud-based IP)?
I'm mainly asking to determine which way helps the broadest number of Tor users. And which is less likely to be blocked in the future. What are the best practices?
PS: Thanks for the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and the documentation on how to run it. It was very helpful and made setup easy. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Hi,
Please ignore that README for now.
We're migrating the WebTunnel documentation to the Community portal, you can find it here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/webtunnel/
If you find issues or incomplete instructions, please report it here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/issues/
Gus
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 03:34:14PM +0000, tor-home at encryptfirst.com wrote:
I followed this documentation: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtu...
Near the bottom is a link to a docker-compose file that references the "thetorproject/webtunnel-bridge:latest" Docker image.
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 8:01 AM Jordan Hillis jhillis515@gmail.com wrote:
Can I get a copy of the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and documentation? Thanks
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 6:43 AM tor-home at encryptfirst.com < tor-home@encryptfirst.com> wrote:
When running a WebTunnel bridge, what types of IPs are better for serving requests? My background is with self-hosted home-lab type of setups. There are a number of different ways for homelabs to accept inbound https connections. A few examples:
- Forward a port on a home router.
- Rent a cloud VM/VPS and tunnel a port from the VPS's IP.
- Have a CDN tunnel/forward requests.
- VPN hybrid solutions like Tailscale Funnel.
Are any of these better than others for hosting a WebTunnel bridge? Should cloud provider IPs be preferred over residential IPs, for example, considering that is where most web servers are hosted? Are large CDNs preferred over individual cloud VMs? Is it better to use a different IP for WebTunnel than the IP that runs the OR port (i.e. host OR port on home IP and WebTunnel from a cloud-based IP)?
I'm mainly asking to determine which way helps the broadest number of Tor users. And which is less likely to be blocked in the future. What are the best practices?
PS: Thanks for the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and the documentation on how to run it. It was very helpful and made setup easy. _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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On Montag, 14. August 2023 16:40:09 CEST Jordan Hillis wrote:
Can I get a copy of the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and documentation? Thanks
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtu... More info in the last (June 24) Tor Relay Operator Meetup notes.
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