On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Steve Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering about the benefit of running abridge on an IPv6 address. > > Since the big announcement last December that v0.2.3.9 supports IPv6 > addresses for bridges, I've read a few comments to the affect that BridgDB > doesn't understand IPv6 addresses. > > So... what is the state of publishing IPv6 bridge addresses? Will clients > requesting a bridge address ever be given an IPv6 address? Can a client > specifically request an IPv6 address (or IPv4 address, for that matter)?
Yep! see: https://bridges.torproject.org/?ipv6=True or email [email protected] with the keyword "ipv6" in the subject or body. But... Right now there aren't a lot of IPv6 bridges -- some were assigned to the email distributor, and some were assigned to the https distributor. The latter splits bridges into 5 groups, and depending on your source IP address you may be lucky enough to get an IPv6 bridge [1]. Meanwhile, we hand out a few IPv6 bridges to everyone who visits https://bridges.torproject.org, and the link to query specifically for IPv6 addresses isn't yet publicly displayed on bridges.torproject.org to avoid confusion/support emails. Once there are enough [2] IPv6 bridges, the above link will be on the front page of https://bridges.torproject.org. See: https://tor.extc.org for an example. --Aaron p.s. It's a similar situation with obfsproxy bridges; you can request bridges with a specified transport via https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=TRANSPORT_NAME, e.g. https://bridges.torproject.org/?transport=obfs2 or adding the keywords "transport TRANSPORT_NAME" to the body or subject of an email to [email protected] [1] Try requesting bridges with TorBrowser -- the set of IP addresses corresponding to Tor exits get IPv6 (and obfs2) bridges. [2] Every IP group has at least one IPv6 bridge _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
