Hi Micah! Is the georgetown bridge is flaky as it seems? We have alerts set up for the default bridges and it seems like yours alerts a lot and the others alert rarely. It always comes back after a little while, so this isn't a "hey your bridge is down" mail so much as a "what's up with your bridge" mail.
I wonder if it is an issue with the network it's running on; or if it's an issue with the bridge itself, e.g. maybe there is something in Tor's logs that could help diagnose; or if it's something wonky about our alerts.
(I am cc'ing anti-censorship-team so others can coordinate and stay in sync; note that this is a public list with archives.)
Thanks! --Roger
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Hi Roger, Anti-censorship-team,
Roger Dingledine wrote on 1/19/23 8:09 AM:
Hi Micah! Is the georgetown bridge is flaky as it seems? We have alerts set up for the default bridges and it seems like yours alerts a lot and the others alert rarely. It always comes back after a little while, so this isn't a "hey your bridge is down" mail so much as a "what's up with your bridge" mail.
It's the network. The bridge itself is well maintained and is stable. However, it's sitting on our CS "research" network. We have a new-ish project that combines censorship resistance with network programming, and it involves a fancy new p4-enabled switch. Experiments related to that project are causing network-wide outages.
I'll ask them to hold off and figure out a way to make sure that pontem (the Georgetown bridge) isn't affected.
Best, Micah
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