hi Torix, The logs are indeed meaningful, I am confident my bridge is used :
Dec 11 23:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 5 unique clients. Dec 12 05:23:13.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen 3 unique clients. > There is a bridge tester page at: > https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/ This one only validate the ports are open. > As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use: > netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l This one does not limit to tor bridge On Sat Dec 11, 2021 at 7:32 PM CET, torix wrote: > > Dear Natus, > > So glad to hear you put up a bridge - > > > I'm writing you directly because I seem to have encrypted myself out of > being able to write to the list; they can't unencrypt what I write any > more to check if it's okay to put on the list. > > There is a bridge tester page at: > https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/ > To test your ipv4 orport, put in your ipv4 address of your bridge. > For the obfs4 port, be sure to put in the orport number from this line > in your torrc: > https://bridges.torproject.org/scan/ > ServerTransportListenAddr obfs4 0.0.0.0:<your port number> > Resulting page will tell you if the bridge is working or not. > > As for finding out if anyone is using it or not, I use: > netstat -n |grep ESTA|wc -l > to find the number of current connections. > Or, for more modern linuxes which stopped having netstat installed: > ss -t|grep ESTAB |wc -l > Or, if you are using FreeBSD: > sockstat -c |grep _tor| wc -l > > Going back to the log file: There is a heartbeat message that gives you > the number of users every 6 hours. Here's 2 examples from mine: > > Dec 11 14:16:03.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen > 20 unique clients. > > Dec 11 20:16:03.000 [notice] Heartbeat: In the last 6 hours, I have seen > 17 unique clients. > > > HTH, > > --Torix > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Saturday, December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM, Natus <na...@riseup.net> > wrote: > > > hi > > > > > just setup a tor bridge. how can I validate it is up and running ? > > > > > logs look fine: > > > > > > [notice] You can check the status of your bridge relay at > > > https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=<a key> > > > > > > > [notice] Unable to find IPv4 address for ORPort <port>. You might want to > > > specify IPv6Only to it or set an explicit address or set Address. > > > > > > > [notice] your ORPort <ip>:<port> is reachable from the outside. > > > Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. > > > > > When going on the link above I get : > > > > > > Bridge <a key> advertises: > > > > > > > - obfs4: functional > > > > > > > Last tested: 2021-12-11 17:38:47.790513642 +0000 UTC (3m11.984999137s > > > ago) > > > > > Then any way to monitor how useful running this is ? > > > > > THanks > > > > > tor-relays mailing list > > > > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > > > > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
