[tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-19 Thread Rick Huebner
Hi, all. While skimming /r/tor on Reddit I saw a couple of posts saying they hadn't been able to get any usable bridges for several days, and thought I'd check into it. I downloaded & installed a fresh copy of the Windows TBB 8.5.1 and had it ask for bridges via Moat, and received 2 (not 3?) ob

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-21 Thread Philipp Winter
Thanks for reporting this issue, Rick. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 23:30:40 UTC, Rick Huebner wrote: > It looks like bridge 1 (eldritchworld) gave me bad/incomplete relay > info which prevented making circuits [...] For what it's worth, I managed to bootstrap an obfs4 connection over this bridge. >

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-22 Thread Rick Huebner
Hi, Phillip. Thanks for the response, and for taking on these issues. I also sent a more detailed direct report to frontd...@torproject.org. It apparently crossed with your reply to this thread in the mail, I wasn't intending to nag. I assume that'll end up forwarded to you as well, hopefully t

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-26 Thread Philipp Winter
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:56:21AM -0700, Rick Huebner wrote: > Hi, Phillip. Thanks for the response, and for taking on these issues. I also > sent a more detailed direct report to frontd...@torproject.org. It > apparently crossed with your reply to this thread in the mail, I wasn't > intending to

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-28 Thread Rick Huebner
It's working much better now. Things started improving just a few hours after I posted my previous message, around last Friday afternoon PDT. The web page and email channels started giving out vanilla bridges again (usually 2), and I consistently got 2 obfs4 bridges via Moat and the web page. I

Re: [tor-relays] BridgeDB currently up but non-functional?

2019-06-28 Thread Philipp Winter
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 07:00:14AM -0700, Rick Huebner wrote: > I'm not sure how obfs4 bridges being unreachable would have prevented > bridgedb from just giving them out anyway (pretty sure it can't tell on its > own) [...] Correct, these are two orthogonal problems. Both cause significant user