On 05/26/2018 03:10 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: > They do support port forwarding, I have used it before. I have just only > ever used their service before with Windows so may need to get used to it > some on Linux. Is there a guide to setting up an obfuscated bridge on > Debian? I am aware this may not work fantastically as virtual machines can be > a pain, and also the vpn may not be the best way to run a relay, but will try > it to see if it works out ok.
Well, their website isn't very helpful about how to do it :) This looks like a decent guide: https://dcamero.azurewebsites.net/tor-obfs4-bridge.html But maybe you'd be happier using nano as editor, instead of vi ;) In /etc/tor/torrc you'd want "PublishServerDescriptor 1" instead of "PublishServerDescriptor 0". > From: Mirimir > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2018 6:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Running A Bridge Alongside My Relay > > On 05/26/2018 01:30 PM, Keifer Bly wrote: >> I am subscribed to a vpn service (purevpn) however there service changes >> their IP address and location every few minutes. Would this be a useable >> bridge? Thank you. > > It's the custom PureVPN client that's changing servers periodically. If > you run standard openvpn demon, you can specify particular servers. So > the IP address won't be changing. > > However, you would need to forward the bridge port (TCP 443) to the VPN > exit server. And it looks like PureVPN doesn't allow that. So you'd need > to use a VPN service that does. > > For the one-year plan, PureVPN costs ~$4 per month. Decent VPNs that do > support port forwarding cost about $5-$9 per month. But for that, you > can lease a VPS with gigabit uplink. And running a bridge won't likely > generate abuse complaints. > >> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM Neel Chauhan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> You normally can't run a server through a regular "proxy" as you would >>> need to be able to advertise an open port for the bridge and regular >>> proxy servers won't let you do that. You can do it if you use a VPN with >>> a public IP address for the bridge however, or a second IP address, but >>> you would need to pay $$$ for this. >>> >>> -Neel Chauhan >>> >>> === >>> >>> https://www.neelc.org/ >>> >>> On 2018-05-26 16:19, Keifer Bly wrote: >>>> Yes but I would run it through the proxy so it would have the proxy IP >>>> address. I just noticed tor could use more bridges as there are four >>>> times as many public relays as their are bridges. >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On May 26, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Logforme <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> So I am considering running a bridge alongside my relay gotland >>>>> Would the bridge use the same public IP address as the relay? >>>>> Since you already run a relay, that IP address is public. The point of >>>>> bridges is that they are not public so they are harder to block. >>>>> A government that censors the internet would surely block access to >>>>> all Tor relay IP addresses. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
