On 5 Sep 2016, at 11:49, Arisbe arisbe@cni.net wrote:

I need someone's bridge experience. I had an HD crash and lost one of my Tor bridges. So, I'm rebuilding on a leased VPS. First I tried with Debian 8 and then with ubuntu 16.04 when Debian didn't work. With both operating systems I get a warning message when I start Tor. Tor is the latest version as is obfs4proxy:

Sep 04 13:39:41.641 [warn] Strange ServerTransportPlugin type 'obfs4' Sep 04 13:39:41.641 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Invalid server transport line. See logs for details.

There are no log entries. Apparently Tor starts without the proxy. I have configured torrc as follows:

ServerTransportPlugin obfs3 obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy

ExtORPort auto

/usr/bin/ does contain the obfs4proxy file.

Does anyone know my problem? Is there a 'tell-all' explanation of obfs4proxy?

From the tor manual page:

ServerTransportPlugin transport exec path-to-binary [options] The Tor relay launches the pluggable transport proxy in path-to-binary using options as its command-line options, and expects to receive proxied client traffic from it.

You're only allowed one space-separated transport name for "transport", you have two: "obfs3" and "obfs4".

Tim

Thanks, Arisbe

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