>2) Testing
>How do I (easily) confirm my bridge is correctly configured?
>Especially if I don't have an IPv6 connection for TBB?
FYI, you can get up to 5 IPv6 addresses for free from Hurricane Electric:
https://tunnelbroker.net/
That lets you tunnel IPv6 traffic when your ISP only offers IPv4 networking,
allowing you to connect to your IPv6 bridge address.
On Monday, June 1, 2015 12:34pm, "Tom Ritter" <t...@ritter.vg> said:
> 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
> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/C184F644B9D39B26647779282003ACAF59E8028A
>
>
> During this exercise I ran across a few pain points for setting up a
> bridge. Maybe I completely ignored some existing resource for this,
> but the bottom of https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges is out of
> date, BridgeDB doesn't have a link anywhere, and trac's search isn't
> that good but I couldn't find anything on that either.
>
> 1) Setup
> I followed
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/obfs4.git/tree/README.md
> to set up the obfs3/obfs4
> As good as this is, it would be great if it included a minimal and
> complete torrc for an obfs4 bridge, and perhaps also for an
> obfs3/obfs4 bridge and an IPv6 setup. My torrc is
>
> SocksPort 0
> ControlPort 9051
> HashedControlPassword ...
> CookieAuthentication 1
> ORPort 9001
> ORPort [<public ipv6 addr>]:9001
> BridgeRelay 1
> ExtORPort auto
> ServerTransportPlugin obfs3,obfs4 exec /usr/local/bin/obfs4proxy
> ServerTransportListenAddr obfs3 [::]:80
> ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 [::]:443
>
> 2) Testing
> How do I (easily) confirm my bridge is correctly configured?
> Especially if I don't have an IPv6 connection for TBB?
>
> netstat seems to say that things are good. The tcp6 connections on 80
> and 443 also apply to ipv4 though; right?
>
> $ netstat -lpn
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9051 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 479/tor
> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9001 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 479/tor
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:55346 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN 479/tor
> tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::*
> LISTEN 480/obfs4proxy
> tcp6 0 0 <public ipv6 addr> :::* LISTEN
> 479/tor
> tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::*
> LISTEN 480/obfs4proxy
>
> I can put my bridge line into TBB and try and use it for obfs4; seems
> to work. But actually finding that bridge line wasn't straightforward
> (cat /var/lib/tor/pt_state/obfs4_bridgeline.txt and then edit the
> fields, right?) And it doesn't help for obfs3.
>
> Some external validation would be nice.
>
> 3) Usage
> Can do I figure out if my bridge is being used? I've identified the
> following:
>
> $ cat /var/lib/tor/stats/bridge-stats
> bridge-stats-end 2015-05-31 18:58:43 (86400 s)
> bridge-ips
> bridge-ip-versions v4=0,v6=0
> bridge-ip-transports
>
> $ zgrep unique /var/log/tor/*
> (a bunch of lines of "0 unique clients")
>
> Atlas graphs, showing virtually no traffic
>
>
>
>
> I feel like #2 might be addressed by Weather (if it was working), but
> all of these might be a good subject for a wiki page on how to run a
> bridge, if my understanding of everything is correct.
>
> -tom
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