Re: [tor-dev] Bridge Guards (prop#188) & Bridge ORPort Reachability Tests

On 10 September 2015 at 02:01, isis isis@torproject.org wrote:

2.a. First, if there aren't any other reasons for self-testing: Is Bridge
     reachability self-testing actually helpful to Bridge operators in
     practice?  Don't most Bridge operators just try to connect, as a
     client, to their own Bridge to see if it's working correctly?  (This
     is what I usually do, at least…)

Yes it is helpful; no I don't/can't always do that. IPv6 is one issue*. Finding the correct incantation is another**. =)

-tom

* Yes I know I can get free IPv6 tunnels from tunnelbroker, no I don't want to; it is complicated. ** See my email from earlier this summer about piecing everything together to test a bridge.