[tor-talk] Amazon Cloud Bridges

Runa A. Sandvik runa.sandvik at gmail.com
Wed May 1 22:15:49 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Mysterious Miser
<mysteriousmiser at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just set up an Amazon cloud bridge for Tor.  I have a simple question.  Now that the EC2 Instance is set up and active, do I have to press the Launch Instance button at the top of the page on my Amazon EC2 Dashboard?  Do I have to do anything at all?  Under "Status Check", it says "2/2 checks passed.  So does that mean it's live and what not?

After selecting an image and clicking through a few screens, you
should see a window with "Your instances are now launching". You
should then be able to see this instance in the main list, with "2/2
checks passed" and the state "running" You do have to make sure that
all four required ports (22, 443, 40872, 52176) are open in the
firewall (called the security group).

> Is there a way for me to tell if it is being used?  I figure if it's being used, it must be active.  I realize it will not get used instantly, but I want to make sure it is usable by the general public.

You can connect to the instance with ssh and use arm (with sudo -u
debian-tor arm) to look at different stats, such as bandwidth, logs,
configurations, connections, etc.

-- 
Runa A. Sandvik


More information about the tor-talk mailing list