What is "regular" traffic on an obfuscated bridge
Hi there, After seeing the call to arm [1], I decided to spin up some 2 new obfuscated bridges. I am already running 2 (non-obf) bridges, and was about to boot 3 others. I'm seeing something like 4MB/day of traffic with those obf bridges, whereas the 2 non-obf bridges show something like 10MB/sec. ( All the servers more or less have the same specs, so it's not a hardware/connectivity issue. My question is: is it a "normal" amount of traffic on an obf bridge? For what it's worth, I followed intructions here [2] on an ubuntu precise with a firewall. I allowed communications on the OR port and the 2 ports given by obf2 and obf3. I've set up the 2 obf bridges 8 hours ago, give or take, maybe is it just a matter of insufficient uptime? Cheers, [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-April/002089.html [2] https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions.html.en
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:34:39 +0000, Torry Torah wrote: ...
My question is: is it a "normal" amount of traffic on an obf bridge?
I'd say 'yes'. What is 'normal' depends on how many and what kind of users get to pick your bridge.
I've set up the 2 obf bridges 8 hours ago, give or take, maybe is it just a matter of insufficient uptime?
...and how fast they do - picking bridges that aren't in the default set in the bundles is a manual process. I just started (and verified) an obfs3 bridge, and haven't set up traffic monitoring yet (also not on a per protocol level). Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
On 19.04.2013 21:34, Torry Torah wrote:
Hi there,
After seeing the call to arm [1], I decided to spin up some 2 new obfuscated bridges. I am already running 2 (non-obf) bridges, and was about to boot 3 others.
I'm seeing something like 4MB/day of traffic with those obf bridges, whereas the 2 non-obf bridges show something like 10MB/sec. (
It takes a while for bridges to be distributed to users. Each bridge is automatically selected to be in one "distribution pool", for example email (bridges@bridges.torproject.org) or web ( https://bridges.torproject.org/ ). The traffic you see depends on what kind of users learn about a specific bridge, and how often/intensively they use it. So, it is quite natural to see different usage patterns across different bridges -- especially when some have been around for a while, while others are fairly new in the game.
I've set up the 2 obf bridges 8 hours ago, give or take, maybe is it just a matter of insufficient uptime?
Some bridges don't see much use over weeks, and then suddenly it hits them. Be prepared and keep them online! :) -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/
On 19.04.2013, Moritz wrote:
On 19.04.2013 21:34, Torry Torah wrote:
Hi there,
After seeing the call to arm [1], I decided to spin up some 2 new obfuscated bridges. I am already running 2 (non-obf) bridges, and was about to boot 3 others.
I'm seeing something like 4MB/day of traffic with those obf bridges, whereas the 2 non-obf bridges show something like 10MB/sec. (
It takes a while for bridges to be distributed to users. Each bridge is automatically selected to be in one "distribution pool", for example email (bridges@bridges.torproject.org) or web ( https://bridges.torproject.org/ ). The traffic you see depends on what kind of users learn about a specific bridge, and how often/intensively they use it. So, it is quite natural to see different usage patterns across different bridges -- especially when some have been around for a while, while others are fairly new in the game.
Okay thanks. By the way, does it make sense to have an obfuscated bridge be an exit node? It is of any interest?
I've set up the 2 obf bridges 8 hours ago, give or take, maybe is it just a matter of insufficient uptime?
Some bridges don't see much use over weeks, and then suddenly it hits them. Be prepared and keep them online! :)
They should be :) -- Torry
On 20.04.2013 00:00, Torry Torah wrote:
Okay thanks. By the way, does it make sense to have an obfuscated bridge be an exit node? It is of any interest?
It looks like you can currently be either bridge, or regular relay/exit. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1776 -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Moritz Bartl <moritz@torservers.net>wrote:
On 20.04.2013 00:00, Torry Torah wrote:
Okay thanks. By the way, does it make sense to have an obfuscated bridge be an exit node? It is of any interest?
It looks like you can currently be either bridge, or regular relay/exit. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1776
-- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Bridges are not published by the directory authorities, but exits are. If a censor is blocking the lists of (public) exits by IP, the obfsbridge won't be much help. --Aaron
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