On 8/2/13 4:37 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:11:38 -0700 > "Shawn A. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been running a Tor bridge on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing >> platform (per instructions at https://cloud.torproject.org/) since >> July 27, and while the bridge is up and running according to the logs, >> there doesn't seem to be much traffic running through it, i.e., latest >> logs indicate Tor uptime is 2 days 12 hours with 2 circuits open; 6.6 >> MB sent and 45.75 MB received. Have I somehow managed to misconfigure >> the bridge or is this normal? > > First, thanks for running a bridge. Second, this is normal. The > determining factor of how much traffic you receive as a bridge is > simply which bucket your bridge is placed in the BridgeDB. There are > multiple buckets, some served via HTTPS, SMTPS, XMPP, and reserve > buckets of bridges handed out by hand to trusted activists, or simply > kept in reserve in case of emergency. > > There's no way a bridge operator knows which bucket you're in.
Actually, there is (finally) a way to find out: http://globe.rndm.de Search for bridge nickname or fingerprint and look for the bridge's pool assignment information. (Note that this information may not be entirely correct until we resolve #9264.) However, a bridge's usefulness isn't determined by the number of bytes it pushes. We're currently working on resuming to hand out bridges in the reserved bucket to activists. So it's a good thing to have bridges in the reserved pool which do not push much traffic yet. Best, Karsten _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
