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

[Keifer Bly]

Thanks. But it just seems that would make it easier to have "new" bridges,
as all of the in use ones will eventually be blocked? Have you seen my
homemade tool for Windows tor relays at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpk6yvUWQqU? Thanks.
--Keifer


On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 6:43 AM meskio <meskio at torproject.org> wrote:

> 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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