Hi relay operators,
I've run a number of relays, so I'm familiar with how this usually works for non-bridges.
I'm working on a project that might want to connect through a bridge, so I thought I'd fire one of those up to offset the demands I'd be placing on the network.
I've been operating this bridge for about 30 days with RelayBandwidthRate set at 5000 KBytes, which I thought might be attractive to some clients, since most bridges are so small. But checking my logs for the last few days, I don't seem to have had any clients at all recently. Is this expected for a bridge, as clients don't rotate their bridge very often, or is something possibly wrong? As far as I can tell, everything is working OK, because I can connect through it with my own Tor client. The server descriptor is published.
I'll avoid pasting the whole torrc since it's a bridge, but I can do that with some parts removed if that would help.
Thanks! jc
Here's a recent thread with a good answer: https://www.mail-archive.com/tor-relays@lists.torproject.org/msg10829.html
The consensus seems to be, since bridges are allocated to users randomly, they may not see much traffic in some cases.
There's some guidance here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge. I think this question is raised fairly often, and it might be good to add some additional info to the FAQ.
Thanks, I've seen this come up before but couldn't find a good recent answer. That one helps.
The longstanding advice has been to run a relay if you have enough bandwidth, and a bridge if you only have a tiny bit. It seemed to me that larger bridges could help people who need them, but maybe this wouldn't help many people if the bandwidth isn't taken into account when handing them out. Is there an anonymity benefit to doing this randomly, rather than weighting the probability by bandwidth?
On May 19, 2017 00:01, "tor" tor@anondroid.com wrote:
Here's a recent thread with a good answer: https://www.mail-archi ve.com/tor-relays@lists.torproject.org/msg10829.html
The consensus seems to be, since bridges are allocated to users randomly, they may not see much traffic in some cases.
There's some guidance here: https://www.torproject.o rg/docs/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge. I think this question is raised fairly often, and it might be good to add some additional info to the FAQ.
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