* Tom Ritter schrieb am 2015-06-01 um 18:34 Uhr:
Earlier this month I set up an obfs3/obfs4 bridge that (as far as I can tell) has never been used. Is this normal? My bridge is at
I'm running several bridges (plus obfs3, obfs4 and other PTs). However most of them are never used (something like 4 in 10 or less). The ones that are in use attract only a few users. The bridgte-stats constantly tell me about 8 »users« (which is the minimum value). Sometimes there are 16 or even 24 »users«. However the last case is very rare.
How do I (easily) confirm my bridge is correctly configured?
I try to build the line from /var/lib/tor/pt_state/obfs4_bridgeline.txt in the case of obfs4 and enter it into my Tor Browser. Also I set up logging for obfs4. If I open Tor Browser, open a website and see a connection attempt in the obfs4.log, I take it as a confirmation that it works.
$ cat /var/lib/tor/stats/bridge-stats bridge-stats-end 2015-05-31 18:58:43 (86400 s) bridge-ips
The above line shows between 1 and 6 different country codes which usually all equal to 8.
bridge-ip-transports
In the majority of the bridges I see <OR> (default bridge), sometimes obfs3 and almost never any other of the pluggable transports. I want to investigate why obfs4 is nearly never used.