On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 10:52:42AM +0100, trinity pointard wrote: > There are multiple bridges distributions mechanism. One is chosen at random > when your bridge first come to life, each being perfectly fine : > - moat: distributed automatically to Tor Browser users > - https: distributed on bridge-db website after solving a captcha > https://bridges.torproject.org/ > - email: distributed when sending an email to brid...@torproject.org) > - reserved: distributed manually, mostly in-person I imagine > > The only distribution mechanism you might want to worry about is "none", it > either mean your bridge is really young and bridge-db is not distributing > it yet (it should only be in that state for about a few hours), or you > decided to distribute this bridge yourself (no bridge-db involved, by > setting `BridgeDistribution none` in your torrc), or your bridge is down.
Right, exactly. Two more documentation resources that could be helpful: * The relay-search page makes each "Bridge distribution mechanism" into a link to its entry on https://bridges.torproject.org/info * You can read about the original design idea here: https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/blocking.html#tth_sEc7.4 And for those who enjoy reading even more, check out these blog posts which detail the open research areas: * https://blog.torproject.org/strategies-getting-more-bridge-addresses * https://blog.torproject.org/research-problems-ten-ways-discover-tor-bridges * https://blog.torproject.org/research-problem-five-ways-test-bridge-reachability --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays