Thanks for all the answers. It seems my view of what a bridge is was wrong. I thought a bridge is a link point between tor nodes which forwards traffic from an entry node to an exit node. But as I understand it now a bridge is kind of a "secret" entry point into the tor network. As I read in the FAQ the standard path lenght is hardcoded at 3. So how would I have to configure it to run as a node that operates as an entry point(not secret necessarily), a forwarding node but not as an exit node?
On 2009.06.10 15:38, Scott Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:20:04 +0200 Arjan > <[email protected]> wrote: > >Scott Bennett wrote: > >[...] > >> Now that you've published your tor bridge's IP address on this list-- > >> assuming the one you've shown us is accurate, rather than an appropriate > >> substitution for purposes of sending it to this list--you ought to consider > >> contacting your host company in the U.S. to get them to change the IP > >> address > >> and restart tor using the new IP address. The IP address shown above, if > >> correct, will probably be useless anywhere that access via bridges is > >> needed. > > > >It doesn't matter much. All bridges with static IP address will probably > >end up on block lists eventually. > > > That may or may not be so. But why start out on a block list, thereby > eliminating whatever useful life that address might have had, obviating the > running of a bridge?
