So, some hours ago I noticed a circuit on the network map consisting of a relay in my own country, another one 11,000 km away, and - surprise - my own bridge relay. Can this be so? I thought that bridges, though published, are anonymous.

My TBB configuration seems fine, it's what I've used in previous implementations. The only difference I've written into torrc for this run is SocksPort auto. The bandwidth rates seeming way higher than should be allotted to my bridge (10485760 & 5242880, rather than the 196608 & 98304 of previous runs), I checked my bandwidth-limit setting and found that I had inadvertently chosen > 1.5 Mpbs instead of 1.5 Mpbs (but as I'd noted to myself previously, the higher setting doesn't seem to matter, except maybe to improve performance a bit).

The relays_ published output is as usual (not that I'd be likely to recognize anything amiss in that report).

One other thing that may be pertinent and which I've wanted to ask about for a long time is this: I occasionally for convenience run my open browser from the same vista machine on which I'm running the TBB at the same time. Is this bad practice, and could it have been the reason that the bridge nickname showed in the network map?

- eli gpg: 0xE498E90D