[tor-relays] OBFS4 Bridge

teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 00:06:03 UTC 2016


> On 13 Oct 2016, at 10:53, pvr6 at sigaint.org wrote:
> 
> Have been running an obfs3 bridge for a while. Since I was building a new
> Debian server wanted to add obfs4, but when I configure TBB to point to
> the obfs4 port [Z] I get "general SOCKS failure" in the TBB log. Changing
> it back to use obfs3 and port [Y] works fine. How can I fix it so obfs4
> works too?
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from torrc:
> ---
> ORPort [X]
> 
> BridgeRelay 1
> PublishServerDescriptor bridge
> 
> ServerTransportPlugin obfs3 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy managed

Here, you ask obfs4proxy yo of obfs3 for you, but not obfs4.
Try obfs3,obfs4 instead.

And then give tor browser the full line from the bridge line
file in the obfs4proxy directory (the exact file name is in
the obfs4proxy readme).

T

> ServerTransportListenAddr obfs3 0.0.0.0:[Y]
> ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:[Z]
> ExtORPort auto
> ---
> 
> If I do netstat -pan, I see obfs4proxy is listening on both ports on all
> interfaces. I tried to add "--log-file logfile" after /usr/bin/obfs4proxy
> in torrc but then it wouldn't start the proxy at all. I'm not finding any
> other log messages showing a problem. Tor's log is clean, just shows it
> starting both proxy instances (which netstat confirms.) Obfs4proxy is the
> packaged version 0.0.6.
> 
> Not sure where else to look or change. I'd like to get it working but have
> commented out the obfs4 line for now.
> 
> 
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T

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