Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay
Hello, So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland, as the network could probably use some more bridges. As I have said, I do not have any other network that I can run my relay from, however, what I might do is run my obsfacted bridge on a Linux Virtual Machine through a proxy server. Does anyone know any free proxy software out there this might be achievable with? Let me know what you think, thank you.
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges. Sent from my iPhone On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but you would need to pay $$$ for this. -Neel Chauhan === https://www.neelc.org/ On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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I am subscribed to a vpn service (purevpn) however there service changes their IP address and location every few minutes. Would this be a useable bridge? Thank you. On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM Neel Chauhan <neel@neelc.org> wrote:
You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but you would need to pay $$$ for this.
-Neel Chauhan
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On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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On 05/26/2018 01:30 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
I am subscribed to a vpn service (purevpn) however there service changes their IP address and location every few minutes. Would this be a useable bridge? Thank you.
It's the custom PureVPN client that's changing servers periodically. If you run standard openvpn demon, you can specify particular servers. So the IP address won't be changing. However, you would need to forward the bridge port (TCP 443) to the VPN exit server. And it looks like PureVPN doesn't allow that. So you'd need to use a VPN service that does. For the one-year plan, PureVPN costs ~$4 per month. Decent VPNs that do support port forwarding cost about $5-$9 per month. But for that, you can lease a VPS with gigabit uplink. And running a bridge won't likely generate abuse complaints.
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM Neel Chauhan <neel@neelc.org> wrote:
You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but you would need to pay $$$ for this.
-Neel Chauhan
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On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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They do support port forwarding, I have used it before. I have just only ever used their service before with Windows so may need to get used to it some on Linux. Is there a guide to setting up an obfuscated bridge on Debian? I am aware this may not work fantastically as virtual machines can be a pain, and also the vpn may not be the best way to run a relay, but will try it to see if it works out ok. From: Mirimir Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 6:56 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay On 05/26/2018 01:30 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
I am subscribed to a vpn service (purevpn) however there service changes their IP address and location every few minutes. Would this be a useable bridge? Thank you.
It's the custom PureVPN client that's changing servers periodically. If you run standard openvpn demon, you can specify particular servers. So the IP address won't be changing. However, you would need to forward the bridge port (TCP 443) to the VPN exit server. And it looks like PureVPN doesn't allow that. So you'd need to use a VPN service that does. For the one-year plan, PureVPN costs ~$4 per month. Decent VPNs that do support port forwarding cost about $5-$9 per month. But for that, you can lease a VPS with gigabit uplink. And running a bridge won't likely generate abuse complaints.
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM Neel Chauhan <neel@neelc.org> wrote:
You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but you would need to pay $$$ for this.
-Neel Chauhan
===
On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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On 05/26/2018 03:10 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
They do support port forwarding, I have used it before. I have just only ever used their service before with Windows so may need to get used to it some on Linux. Is there a guide to setting up an obfuscated bridge on Debian? I am aware this may not work fantastically as virtual machines can be a pain, and also the vpn may not be the best way to run a relay, but will try it to see if it works out ok.
Well, their website isn't very helpful about how to do it :) This looks like a decent guide: https://dcamero.azurewebsites.net/tor-obfs4-bridge.html But maybe you'd be happier using nano as editor, instead of vi ;) In /etc/tor/torrc you'd want "PublishServerDescriptor 1" instead of "PublishServerDescriptor 0".
From: Mirimir Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 6:56 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay
On 05/26/2018 01:30 PM, Keifer Bly wrote:
I am subscribed to a vpn service (purevpn) however there service changes their IP address and location every few minutes. Would this be a useable bridge? Thank you.
It's the custom PureVPN client that's changing servers periodically. If you run standard openvpn demon, you can specify particular servers. So the IP address won't be changing.
However, you would need to forward the bridge port (TCP 443) to the VPN exit server. And it looks like PureVPN doesn't allow that. So you'd need to use a VPN service that does.
For the one-year plan, PureVPN costs ~$4 per month. Decent VPNs that do support port forwarding cost about $5-$9 per month. But for that, you can lease a VPS with gigabit uplink. And running a bridge won't likely generate abuse complaints.
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM Neel Chauhan <neel@neelc.org> wrote:
You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but you would need to pay $$$ for this.
-Neel Chauhan
===
On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four times as many public relays as their are bridges.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <m7527@abc.se> wrote:
So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. A government that censors the internet would surely block access to all Tor relay IP addresses.
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