[tor-relays] is my tor bridge running ok ?

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

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My suggestion would be to install Nyx if I am understanding your question.

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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=
[notice] Unable to find IPv4 address for ORPort . You might want to specify IPv6Only to it or set an explicit address or set Address.
[notice] your ORPort : is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.

When going on the link above I get :

Bridge 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


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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:
Tor Project | TCP Reachability Test

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

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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:
Tor Project | TCP Reachability Test
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:
Tor Project | TCP Reachability Test
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

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Saturday, December 11th, 2021 at 5:47 PM, Natus <natus@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=&lt;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
>

> tor-relays Info Page

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Pipe the bridge’s destination port (i.e., 8888) through grep as well:

netstat -anp | grep :8888 | grep EST | wc -l

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On Sunday, December 12, 2021, 1:32:09 AM PST, Natus natus@riseup.net wrote:

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


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