[tor-talk] Tor bridge with no traffic

[Andreas Krey]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:53:24 +0000, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a Tor bridge for some days now (after shutting down an exit 
> node, due to too many DMCA complaints) but it's hardly getting any 
> traffic:
> 
>   Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 1 day 11:59 hours, with 2 circuits open.
>   I've sent 7.34 MB and received 24.86 MB.
> 
> I feel like it's configured wrongly, though the log file does not report 
> any errors:

I don't think so. My bridge get similarly low usage (the
vidalia-configured just as the hand-setup one), and given the way bridge
addresses may be handed out, and that you explicitly need to configure
them, that is not surprising.

Feb 22 17:06:31.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 5 days 6:00 hours,
with 13 circuits open. I've sent 131.98 MB and received 194.90 MB.

Although it was picking up some traffic (the traffic shape looked like
a download) last night:

Feb 22 23:06:31.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 5 days 11:47
hours, with 10 circuits open. I've sent 265.16 MB and received 331.19 MB.

and after that back to normal low traffic.

> Any ideas on how to get the bridge going?

Wait. :-)

If anybody in the operational know reads this: What good is it to run
a bridge that changes its address every day, in view of the way bridge
addresses are distributed?

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800