[tor-relays] Question On Running A Tor Bridge Relay

[Tony Peck]

I have tried the manual install mentioned in this communication.  I
get the error: gopath not set.  The go help gopath does not help me. 
What should the gopath be and where should I put it?  I also use a
local Charter company, Spectrum.

On 8/8/2018 at 4:32 AM, "Keifer Bly"  wrote:Ok. Thanks. The only
computer I can run my relay on is a macos compter, and it seems to
have been doing ok for the last week or so. Perhaps that was something
unrelated my router was doing. As obfs4 seems incompatible with
macos/homebrew, I will keep running my relay as normal for now. I
tried doing a manual install and it caused the tor software to crash,
leading me to believe that will not work on MacOS for now.
I had another thought, in newest versions of tor browser, the option
to use bridges is now lables as "tor is censored in my country" where
it used to read "my isp blocks connections to the tor network". There
could also be people in uncensored countries trying to connect from
networks who's network administrator has blocked access to the tor
network, it might be a good idea to include this in the text to clear
confusion. Just a thought.
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 6:54 PM teor  wrote:

 > On 1 Aug 2018, at 19:57, Keifer Bly  wrote:
 > 
 > Hi All,
 > 
 > So given that I am running my relay off of a home internet router
(a Netgear Orbi Router) I am considering switching to running an
obfuscated bridge. I am not sure I will do this, but have noticed that
when my relay (torland at
 >
http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/router_detail.php?FP=db1af6477bb276b6ea5e72132684096eee779d30)
Gets a lot of use,  this can cause my computer I am running it on to
get hot (It is a mid 2011 iMac with 8GB Ram running Mac OS High
Sierra). It does not happen often, but does from time to time. I have
also noticed that not often but occasionally when my relay is running,
my router will lock up either for a few minutes or until I restart it.
I do not know if this is related to my relay (I checked with Netgear
support and was told the router  is capable of about 60,000
simultaneous connections, 65,000 being the absolute maximum).
 > 
 > The ISP is Charter Communications, and the internet speed generally
alternates between 500-800 kb/s. I will maybe try running a bridge to
cut down on the maximum number of connections I get, and have three
questions. I have been running a public relay off my listed ip for
some time but have a Dynamic IP so it should change from time to time.
 > 
 >       • What would be the most helpful PT to run? Obfs4 is the
one I would most likely choose, and what countries are these being
used in the most?
 obfs4 is a good PT to run.
 Here is a graph of the top 10 countries:
 https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-table.html
 >       • I looked on the tor website and could only find the
instructions for installing PT on Linux at 
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy.
Is there currently a way to install the PT for Obfs4 on Mac OS High
Sierra (this would be installed via homebrew)?
 You can use “brew search” in your terminal to find homebrew
packages.
 It doesn’t look like obfs4proxy is available via homebrew:
 http://brewformulas.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bterms%5D=obfs4proxy&button=&search%5Bnames%5D=0&search%5Bnames%5D=1&search%5Bfilenames%5D=0&search%5Bfilenames%5D=1&search%5Bdescriptions%5D=0&search%5Bdescriptions%5D=1
 You could try a manual install:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/obfs4.git/plain/README.md
 >       • Would it be possible to keep my current relay
fingerprint?
 Keeping your current relay fingerprint is a bad idea.
 It makes your bridge easier to censor, and it doesn’t help bridge
users.
 Delete your keys and start again.
 T
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