[tor-relays] Possible to run a tor bridge/relay via tor browser?

[Keifer Bly]

Well, I just tried, and no luck, see the attached video. I edited the torrc
file included with the torrc file to run the bridge, and after doing this,
it causes tor to immediately crash on startup before even making any logs.



This is what is entered in the torrc file, the same as what is entered in
my tor expert bundle torrc



Nickname torland





SOCKSPort 0                # no local SOCKS proxy



ORPort 80                # public bridge must have an open ORPort



ExtORPort auto             # configure ExtORPort for obfs4proxy



ExitPolicy reject *:*      # no exits allowed



BridgeRelay 1              # relay won't show up in the public consensus



PublishServerDescriptor 1  # publish to the bridge authority





# use obfs4proxy to provide obfs4 on port 9003, 443



ServerTransportPlugin obfs4 exec C:\Users\keife\Desktop\Tor Browser test
relay\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports



ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:443



ContactInfo keifer.bly at gmail.com





Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you. I am also wondering, can tor
browser be configured to automatically install updates on startup? Thanks.



 tor browser relay error.mp4
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E2YWlMnsA3oBtzSSe2k2T7VDYdF2irVX/view?usp=drive_web>



--Keifer


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:40 AM teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi,
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> On 25 Mar 2020, at 06:35, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
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> So I am currently running an OBFS4 bridge here:
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> https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/386E99371B8CD938248940B754F16AAC54B5712B
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> It is being done via the TOR expert bundle on Windows 10. I am wondering,
> would it be possible to run the bridge via the tor that comes with the tor
> browser? This way, everything (tor, obfs4, etc). could be automatically
> updated for the bridge just when updating tor browser.
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> Probably.
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> Why don't you try it, and let us know how you go?
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