[tor-relays] What is more necessary: Bridge or Relay?

[David Stainton]

http://torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#RelayOrBridge


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:31 PM,  <an.to_n-73 at riseup.net> wrote:
> Hello List!
>
> Since 7/2013 I operate a small Tor Server as internal relay or as obfuscated bridge.
> What is more necessary: An internal relay to speed up the network, or an
> obfuscated bridge to help censored users?
> My ISP gives me dynamic IPs, which change daily. I guess this is good for
> bridges, because my IP is valid only for one day.
> Otherwise I've got an upload > 500 kbps and could contribute to the network speed.
>
> Actually I've got not clue about the need for anonymous bridges.
>
> In addition: I could combine both, because my VPN provider iVPN offers port
> forwarding. So I could run the RaspberryPi as bridge on my own IP and the 2nd
> server as internal relay over the VPN. So the public relay runs on another IP.
> But actually the VPN connection terminates by itself, the relay goes offline and
> I can fix it the evening.
> => Has anyone experience with servers listening over VPN?
>
> Does anyone know more?
>
> Best regards
>
> Anton
>
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