[tor-talk] my tor connection always timed out these days

[Sam Whited]

Looks like about 80% of bridge relays are blocked from China these
days (via the March 2012 progress report:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/march-2012-progress-report)

Quote:
"We developed a tool for scans of bridge lists which attempts to
    either open a simple TCP connection to the bridge’s OR port or that
    will perform a full Tor handshake to the bridge. We tested the
    scanner by running a scan from Germany,
    <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5028#comment:35>
    and comparing results to bridge reachability information obtained
    from the bridge authority in The Netherlands. We also performed a
    scan from China,
    <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5028#comment:45>,
    and found that over 80% of bridges were unreachable. We compared
    active scan results to passive usage statistics,
    <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5028#comment:48>,
    and confirmed that bridges that were found as unreachable in the
    scan also reported significantly fewer connections from China than
    other bridges."

If you can't make a TCP connection to your bridge addresses, you may
need to just keep requesting more until it works.

—Sam

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:34, 季洪明 <zeus2615 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a Chinese user
> I added some new bridges, but that does not make it better.
> My message log shows it always stuck at 80%
>
> Anyone help?
> thanks
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