[tor-relays] WebTunnel: What ASNs/networks work best?

tor-home at encryptfirst.com tor-home at encryptfirst.com
Wed Aug 16 15:34:14 UTC 2023


I followed this documentation:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel#docker-setup

Near the bottom is a link to a docker-compose file that references the
"thetorproject/webtunnel-bridge:latest" Docker image.

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 8:01 AM Jordan Hillis <jhillis515 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I get a copy of the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and
> documentation? Thanks
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 6:43 AM tor-home at encryptfirst.com <
> tor-home at encryptfirst.com> wrote:
>
>> When running a WebTunnel bridge, what types of IPs are better for
>> serving requests? My background is with self-hosted home-lab type of
>> setups. There are a number of different ways for homelabs to accept
>> inbound https connections. A few examples:
>>
>> - Forward a port on a home router.
>> - Rent a cloud VM/VPS and tunnel a port from the VPS's IP.
>> - Have a CDN tunnel/forward requests.
>> - VPN hybrid solutions like Tailscale Funnel.
>>
>> Are any of these better than others for hosting a WebTunnel bridge?
>> Should cloud provider IPs be preferred over residential IPs, for
>> example, considering that is where most web servers are hosted? Are
>> large CDNs preferred over individual cloud VMs? Is it better to use a
>> different IP for WebTunnel than the IP that runs the OR port (i.e.
>> host OR port on home IP and WebTunnel from a cloud-based IP)?
>>
>> I'm mainly asking to determine which way helps the broadest number of
>> Tor users. And which is less likely to be blocked in the future. What
>> are the best practices?
>>
>> PS: Thanks for the webtunnel-bridge Docker image and the documentation
>> on how to run it. It was very helpful and made setup easy.
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