[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 157, Issue 19

Tue Feb 27 17:21:06 UTC 2024

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On Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 at 04:17, tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org <tor-relays-request at lists.torproject.org> wrote:

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> 1. bridges for Lox (meskio)
> 2. Re: bridges for Lox (Toralf F?rster)
> 3. Re: bridges for Lox (Toralf F?rster)
> 4. Re: bridges for Lox (meskio)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:07:45 +0100
> From: meskio meskio at torproject.org
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> To: tor-relays tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
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> Subject: [tor-relays] bridges for Lox
> Message-ID: 170897446522.1760.2953283832616396350 at localhost
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> Hello,
> 
> We are developing a reputation based bridge distributor called Lox[0] and are
> preparing to make a call for users to test it in Tor Browser Alpha. In order to
> do this, we need to have some new bridges that can be distributed by Lox. Do you
> want to give us a hand running a bridge (or few) for Lox? At the moment we're
> looking for 10 new bridges for Lox.
> 
> Rdsys, the new bridgeDB, will not automatically assign bridges to Lox for now,
> but will instead accept bridges with the 'BridgeDistribution lox' configured in
> torrc.
> 
> To set up a bridge for Lox, configure a normal obfs4 bridge[1] and simply
> include the following line in torrc:
> BridgeDistribution lox
> 
> As Lox is only going to be released for testing, you might not see a lot of
> traffic on Lox bridges at the moment. However, these bridges will be very useful
> for us to improve Lox and see what works and what does not.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox
> [1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/
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> --
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> My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:03:13 +0100
> From: Toralf F?rster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
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> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] bridges for Lox
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> On 2/26/24 20:07, meskio wrote:
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> > At the moment we're
> > looking for 10 new bridges for Lox.
> 
> 
> 9 left
> 
> --
> Toralf
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:07:50 +0100
> From: Toralf F?rster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
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> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] bridges for Lox
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> On 2/26/24 20:07, meskio wrote:
> 
> > Rdsys, the new bridgeDB, will not automatically assign bridges to Lox for now,
> > but will instead accept bridges with the 'BridgeDistribution lox' configured in
> > torrc.
> 
> 
> BTW by accident I configured "any" but restarted tor with "lox" 2
> minutes later. Does that work?
> 
> And FWIW:
> 
> root at luchs:~# grep lox /var/log/tor/notice.log
> Feb 26 20:03:50.008 [warn] Unrecognized BridgeDistribution value "lox".
> I'll assume you know what you are doing...
> 
> root at luchs:~# tor --version
> Tor version 0.4.9.0-alpha-dev (git-b0b943a1613e2f9b).
> Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 3.0.11,
> Zlib 1.2.13, Liblzma N/A, Libzstd N/A and Glibc 2.36 as libc.
> Tor compiled with GCC version 12.2.0
> 
> --
> Toralf
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:17:33 +0100
> From: meskio meskio at torproject.org
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> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] bridges for Lox
> Message-ID: 170902545330.1760.4318596201052842335 at localhost
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> Quoting Toralf F?rster via tor-relays (2024-02-26 21:07:50)
> 
> > On 2/26/24 20:07, meskio wrote:
> > 
> > > Rdsys, the new bridgeDB, will not automatically assign bridges to Lox for now,
> > > but will instead accept bridges with the 'BridgeDistribution lox' configured in
> > > torrc.
> > 
> > BTW by accident I configured "any" but restarted tor with "lox" 2
> > minutes later. Does that work?
> 
> 
> Yes, it looks good from here and lox is already aware of it. Thank you for
> setting it up so fast.
> 
> > And FWIW:
> > 
> > root at luchs:~# grep lox /var/log/tor/notice.log
> > Feb 26 20:03:50.008 [warn] Unrecognized BridgeDistribution value "lox".
> > I'll assume you know what you are doing...
> 
> 
> Yes, you can ignore this log line. Lox is not yet on the list of recognized
> distributors:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/576
> 
> > root at luchs:~# tor --version
> > Tor version 0.4.9.0-alpha-dev (git-b0b943a1613e2f9b).
> > Tor is running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.12-stable, OpenSSL 3.0.11,
> > Zlib 1.2.13, Liblzma N/A, Libzstd N/A and Glibc 2.36 as libc.
> > Tor compiled with GCC version 12.2.0
> 
> 
> :)
> 
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