[tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

[torix at protonmail.com]

Looking at the new, improved instructions for Debian/Ubuntu obfs4 bridges, I am confused by the talk about a fixed obfs4 bridge port. The line to do this is commented out.  Does that mean it is optional to give obfs4 a fixed port?  If it were a random port, however, I'd need a lot of open ports on my firewall...

TIA,

--Torix


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On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 12:00 AM, Philipp Winter <phw at torproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:22:29PM -0700, Philipp Winter wrote:
>
> > We therefore want to encourage volunteers to set up new obfs4 bridges to
> > help censored users. Over the last few weeks, we have been improving
> > our obfs4 setup guide which walks you through the process:
> > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy
>
> We created a docker image for those who prefer containers over manual
> installation. First, fetch the docker image:
>
> docker pull phwinter/obfs4-bridge:0.1
>
> Now, you have two options to start the container:
>
> 1.  You can use the following script to run the container:
>     https://dip.torproject.org/anti-censorship/docker-obfs4-bridge/raw/0fa15ff0e2372238679ad52e8d30ccacbcbd893f/deploy-container.sh
>     It automatically finds an OR port and obfs4 port for you.
>
> 2.  If you would rather provide your own ports, run the following command:
>
>     OR_PORT=XXX PT_PORT=YYY EMAIL=admin at example.com; \
>     docker run -d \
>     -e "OR_PORT=$OR_PORT" -e "PT_PORT=$PT_PORT" -e "EMAIL=$EMAIL" \
>     -p "$OR_PORT":"$OR_PORT" -p "$PT_PORT":"$PT_PORT" \
>     phwinter/obfs4-bridge:0.1
>
>     Replace XXX with your OR port, YYY with your obfs4 port, and
>     admin at example.com with your email address. Don't forget the semicolon
>     after the enrivonment variables.
>
>     Your container should now be bootstrapping your new obfs4 Tor bridge.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Philipp
>
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