[tor-relays] Setting a bridge to automatically change IP adresses

[meskio]

Quoting Keifer Bly (2022-07-22 18:42:57)
>    Says it is blocked in Russia. I take this as a good sign that the bridge
>    is being used, as it is being picked up. But I am wondering is there a way
>    to set the bridge to automatically change Ips every few days or so to make
>    it harder to detect? Maybe this would be an interesting thing to
>    implement.

tl;rd: no, please don't rotate the IP address of your bridges.


There is a complicated valance here.

Many users will keep their bridges for long time if they are working fine, it 
might not be easy in some places to get new bridges. Tor Browser and many other 
software based on tor is designed around that, and bridges are kept long time 
(there are also other benefits for privacy keeping them stable as they end up as 
guards).

At the same time once bridges are blocked it could be nice to rotate IP 
addresses, to keep them being useful. But rotating the IP address might affect 
users on other locations for which the bridge is still working fine.

For now we are asking people to keep their IP address stable and don't rotate 
it. As we find more valuable stable bridges and that is what users expect. We 
have some ideas for the future to allow rotation and let users rediscover them, 
but that is not going to happen soon.

So for now don't host a bridge if you can't have a stable IP address for a long 
period of time. Is not the end of the world if you rotate the IP address once 
per year or something like that, but don't do it on daily basics.

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