[tor-relays] Bridge lifecycle expectations

[Just a Pleb]

Hi All,

I have three lifecycle questions:

1) How long is typical (or what factors are involved ) before the bridge address is given out to users.

2) How do I know when the bridge is burned (identified and blocked)

3) When it is burned and I build a new one on an other address should I copy the key with the config to maintain "trust" continuity or is that neutral or bad for bridges?


As a little context I've run relays before and just started up an obfs4proxy Bridge (well 10days ago).

https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=<MY_BRIDGE_ID>

says it's good, logs look good but I've yet to see any real traffic, just the same 8 German node that I presume are Tor infrastructure checking status.

$ cat bridge-stats
bridge-stats-end 2022-03-22 18:44:43 (86400 s)
bridge-ips de=8
bridge-ip-versions v4=8,v6=0
bridge-ip-transports <OR>=8,obfs4=8

every day is the same (other than bridge-stats-end)

Thanks,
A. Pleb

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