Hi, I've been running a tor guard / middle relay from my home for some while. We have rotating IP addresses but since a lot of official websites (like governmental or banking ones) seem to block us with all of our IPs, we probably looped often enough for the information to spread. Also, we don't have that much bandwidth left for tor (in theory 4MiB/s). To avoid the blocking in the future, I want to switch to a bridge. I have a few questions regarding that: - Does it even make sense to switch to a bridge after already exposing the IP(s) for the guard / middle relay for some while? - Does it make sense to run a bridge if my IP rotates every night? - Should I shut the relay off and wait some while before starting the bridge, to get the IP(s) off blocklists first? - What kind of bridge makes the most sense in this situation?
In case no bridge makes sense, I'm thinking about utilizing the server capacities for a guard / middle relay that pipes the traffic through a VPN instead; I found conflicting information on whether that's a good idea though. Thanks & kind regards Top (they/them) _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
