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Re: [tor-bugs] #18994 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor crashes after tor browser update running bridge mode in Windows
#18994: Tor crashes after tor browser update running bridge mode in Windows
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Reporter: eli | Owner: tbb-team
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: tor broser, bridge mode | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by teor):
Replying to [comment:5 eli]:
> comment by teor:
> > Your Tor is running as a bridge relay using the Tor Browser bundle
> on Windows.
> > I'm not sure if that's something we support.
> > Where are those instructions from?
>
> Nowhere. Based on my experience running windows bridges in previous
versions of tor I assumed that the same could be done in tor browser 4+.
I guess I should've taken the hint when torrc-defaults no longer had any
suggestions for bridge lines. I did ask about this at
help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx before I learned that it had been shut down.
>
> FWIW: I'd bought a low-power box intending to dedicate it to running
bridges 24/7, assuming that I could load a linux distro onto it. Turns
out that's not true; the CPU/graphics chips, which are hardwired in, can't
load Debian or even run it from a live USB or CD. So as long as I'm using
that box I'll have to run tor for windows.
>
> The other reason that I thought I should be able to run a bridge mode
under tor browser is the windows bridges I'm seeing in .../server-
descriptors/ .
Do you mean bridges, or relays?
Bridges are relays with `BridgeRelay 1` set in their torrc, and they don't
appear in the standard set of Tor network descriptors.
The supported way of running a bridge or relay on Windows is using the
expert bundle linked from
https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en
> (Admittedly a small number: currently less than 100. I haven't been able
to make the time to extract previous numbers from archives. Tor browser
in client mode is excellent; but are devs moving toward bridge mode being
enabled in *nix only?)
No, we are happy for people to run relays or bridges on Windows, but it's
not a very common configuration. So we sometimes have trouble debugging
and maintaining it.
We would love people to test relays and bridges on Windows and help
improve support for them.
> > It's also worth noting that you just leaked your bridge's IP address,
> so it might be worth getting another IP address if it's static.
>
> That may be because I've been testing different configurations, and not
paying attention to DNS leakage. Could it be because I'm enabling
SafeLogging 1 during tests?
Do you mean `SafeLogging 0`?
`SafeLogging 1` is the default, and hides client IP addresses in some log
messages.
But it doesn't hide bridge IP addresses, see #19060 for a suggested fix
for this.
> > It looks like your torrc is not set up in a way that Tor Browser can
> > find the ControlPort. Is the ControlPort on 9150 where Tor Browser
> > expects it to be?
>
> Yes, that's the error msg about half the time. I was able to use
ControlPortWriteToFile to identify the control port in previous
configurations (I recall it was 9150, but I killed that log and may be
misremembering.) In the few configurations I was able to (too quickly) run
this past week, that line hasn't been producing output.
Why not set a static ControlPort using `ControlPort 9150`?
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