[tor-bugs] #30006 [Applications/Quality Assurance and Testing]: Monitor "aliveness" of default bridges in Tor Browser

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#30006: Monitor "aliveness" of default bridges in Tor Browser
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 Reporter:  phw                                  |          Owner:  phw
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Quality Assurance and   |        Version:
  Testing                                        |
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  default bridge tbb-bridges           |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by phw):

 Replying to [comment:14 anarcat]:
 > a comment in #30121 made me think that the CI / build process could be
 the thing that checks for integrity in the bridge list. if CI is able to
 access the network, it could just try to ping those bridges as part of the
 build and warn/fail if they are not reachable.
 >
 > that would be simpler and better integrated than running a different
 monitoring server.

 Alternatively, we had Rabbi Rob and gman999 offer to run monitoring for us
 -- using Nagios and sysmon, respectively. We may want to take them up on
 their offer, and while we're at it, also have our bridge authority
 monitored, as discussed in #29229. BridgeDB also needs monitoring.

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