[tor-relays] Why is my Tor bridge relay not getting any traffic?

[Hikari]

ahhhh got it! so that's why my monitor isn't counted lol

I'll get a Tor Browser running to test it later then, and also its speed.


On 28/08/2019 12:22 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:22:33PM +0200, Tor Patatje wrote:
>> You don't connect to your bridge, you connect to the tor network if you use
>> the socks5. So yes, the check passes, because it's being sent over the tor
>> network, not using your bridge but using tor's socks5 proxy.
>>> [...]
>>> And why is it reporting 0 unique clients even though my monitor connects
>>> to it?
>>>
>>> It connects to Tor's SOCKS and goes to check.torproject.org, if it
>>> receives a text back and this text has congratulations message it calls
>>> hc-ping.com. So, wasn't my monitor meant to be counted?
> Right -- your test is trying to use your bridge as a local client on
> the socks port, like you are the local user.
>
> Whereas the client count that your bridge tracks is how many people,
> using their own external Tor, make a TLS connection to your bridge
> (and then build circuits through your bridge to other Tor relays).
>
> So the user count is working correctly -- it is ignoring the local socks
> connections, because they don't represent external users. It will only
> count people who connect to your ORPort and, if you're offering obfs4,
> to your obfs4 port.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --Roger
>
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