[tor-relays] Fw: is my tor bridge running ok ?

[Natus]

hi Torix,

The logs are indeed meaningful, I am confident my bridge is used :

Dec 11 23:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 5 unique clients.
Dec 12 05:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 3 unique clients.


> There is a bridge tester page at:
> https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/

This one only validate the ports are open.

> As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use:
> netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l

This one does not limit to tor bridge


On Sat Dec 11, 2021 at 7:32 PM CET, torix wrote:
>
> Dear Natus,
>
> So glad to hear you put up a bridge -
>
>
> I'm writing you directly because I seem to have encrypted myself out of
> being able to write to the list; they can't unencrypt what I write any
> more to check if it's okay to put on the list.
>
> There is a bridge tester page at:
> https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/
> To test your ipv4 orport, put in your ipv4 address of your bridge.
> For the obfs4 port, be sure to put in the orport number from this line
> in your torrc:
> https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/
> ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:<your port number>
> Resulting page will tell you if the bridge is working or not.
>
> As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use:
> netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l
> to find the number of current connections.
> Or, for more modern linuxes which stopped having netstat installed:
> ss -t|grep ESTAB |wc -l
> Or, if you are using FreeBSD:
> sockstat -c |grep _tor| wc -l
>
> Going back to the log file: There is a heartbeat message that gives you
> the number of users every 6 hours. Here's 2 examples from mine:
>
> Dec 11 14:16:03.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen
> 20 unique clients.
>
> Dec 11 20:16:03.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen
> 17 unique clients.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> --Torix
>
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>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Saturday, December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM, Natus <natus at riseup.net>
> wrote:
>
> > hi
> > 
>
> > just setup a tor bridge. how can I validate it is up and running ?
> > 
>
> > logs look fine:
> > 
>
> > > [notice] You can check the status of your bridge relay at https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=<a key>
> > > 
>
> > > [notice] Unable to find IPv4 address for ORPort <port>. You might want to specify IPv6Only to it or set an explicit address or set Address.
> > > 
>
> > > [notice] your ORPort <ip>:<port> is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
> > 
>
> > When going on the link above I get :
> > 
>
> > > Bridge <a key> advertises:
> > > 
>
> > > -   obfs4: functional
> > >     
>
> > >     Last tested: 2021-12-11 17:38:47.790513642 +0000 UTC (3m11.984999137s ago)
> > 
>
> > Then any way to monitor how useful running this is ?
> > 
>
> > THanks
> > 
>
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> > 
>
> > tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > 
>
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