On 3/24/2014 11:01 AM, Viking God wrote: > Where can I download an obfsproxy bridge bundle nowadays? I use both win > and linux(but not debian/ubuntu). > > I have found dual information pages about setting up obfsproxy+tor in > Debian/Ubuntu Here: > https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en > And here: > https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-debian-instructions.html.en > > But no instructions for other OS:es, and no direct download links with > compiled packages/programs here: > https://www.torproject.org/dist/ > > How do you suppose that people will be able to help setting up obfsproxy > bridges, when there isn't any way to get instructions or packages/programs? > > Previously I ran an obfsproxy bridge and saw the amount of traffic get > lower and lower, at the end it was only about 2-10 MB of traffic per > week and with very few users. Some weeks I go no users so I stopped > wasting my electricity and stopped running the obfs-bridge. But now I > would like to try again after a couple of months pause. I'm interrested > to see if the internet-blocking in Turkey might have caused some more > traffic. > > I also used to run a normal bridge up until a couple of weeks ago but > saw the traffic get as low as around 50MB per week, while normally I > used to get around 1-2GB per week so I shut it down too. I asked myself: > "What's the point of wasting energy and at the same time making it > easier to hack into my network, when I'm not even helping the world?". > So I shut it down too. > > Perhaps some changes in the tor network after the release of tor 0.2.4 > has reduced the number of bridge and obfsproxy users globally? Due to > the constant flow of bugs in the different tor-related software and > bundles, my first guess is that the problem is with changes in tor plus > related software. A look at the bug tracker makes me wonder if there are > more things in the tor related software that do work or don't work??? ;-) > But perhaps more bridges are blocked nowadays by the filters that > various countries apply to the internet? > Or perhaps less countries block their internet users so less people need > to use bridges? > My ISP isn't known for blocking anything and I've never heard of any > government blocking of tor in the EU, so the problem is probably not > with my ISP nor the EU. > I have always been running the latest stable release of the bundles, so > It doesn't have anything to do with old versions. > > So my questions: > Where can I find a obfsproxy bridge bundle for rpm-linux and for windows? > Is there any good explanation to why the traffic to my normal bridge and > my obfsproxy bridge got lower and lower after the release of tor 0.2.4 > as stable? > > > > George Kadianakis skrev 2014-03-15 14:36: >> Hello, >> >> a few days after the release of obfsproxy-0.2.6, we spotted a bug >> where scramblesuit would basically reject clients if they try to >> connect a second time after a short amount of time has passed [0]. >> >> This is a serious correctness bug and bridge operators are advised to >> upgrade to obfsproxy-0.2.7 as soon as possible (we want to start >> suggesting scramblesuit to users and we need to make sure that most >> bridges have already upgraded by then). >> >> You can use git master or pip to upgrade to 0.2.7. We have also >> notified the obfsproxy Debian maintainers and we should soon have >> obfsproxy-0.2.7 packages ready (we will send an email to this list >> when they are ready). >> >> Furthermore, obfsproxy-0.2.7 clients now support SOCKS5 (thanks Yawning!) >> and the changes also include a few performance enhancements >> for obfs3 and scramblesuit. >> >> Please upgrade your bridges. >> >> Thanks! >> >> PS: We will do yet another obfsproxy release soon-ish (probably in the >> next 2 weeks) which will include some more scramblesuit >> improvements and other miscellaneous code changes. Again, we will inform >> you by sending an email to this list. >> >> [0]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11100 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-relays mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >> > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
A very short time (a few hours) after switching my relay from an intermediate relay configuration to a bridge configuration I found that I was no longer blocked from accessing two of the three commercial websites that I knew had previously blocked my IP address. That gives me a few points with the wife. Since I did not find specific instructions for obfusproxy configuration, I am not sure whether my relay has up to date obfusproxy or not, but probably not since Vialia reports Tor 0.2.4.21. rather than the 3.6-Beta 1 which I was trying to install on my windows 7 computer. David C _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
