Thanks. But it just seems that would make it easier to have "new" bridges, as all of the in use ones will eventually be blocked? Have you seen my homemade tool for Windows tor relays at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpk6yvUWQqU? Thanks. --Keifer On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:43 AM meskio <meskio@torproject.org> wrote:

Quoting Keifer Bly (2022-07-22 18:42:57)

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Says it is blocked in Russia. I take this as a good sign that the bridge is being used, as it is being picked up. But I am wondering is there a way to set the bridge to automatically change Ips every few days or so to make it harder to detect? Maybe this would be an interesting thing to implement.

tl;rd: no, please don't rotate the IP address of your bridges.

There is a complicated valance here.

Many users will keep their bridges for long time if they are working fine, it might not be easy in some places to get new bridges. Tor Browser and many other software based on tor is designed around that, and bridges are kept long time (there are also other benefits for privacy keeping them stable as they end up as guards).

At the same time once bridges are blocked it could be nice to rotate IP addresses, to keep them being useful. But rotating the IP address might affect users on other locations for which the bridge is still working fine.

For now we are asking people to keep their IP address stable and don't rotate it. As we find more valuable stable bridges and that is what users expect. We have some ideas for the future to allow rotation and let users rediscover them, but that is not going to happen soon.

So for now don't host a bridge if you can't have a stable IP address for a long period of time. Is not the end of the world if you rotate the IP address once per year or something like that, but don't do it on daily basics.

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