[tor-dev] Why is my bridge not publishing statistics?

[David Fifield <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I searched for the Snowflake bridge in Atlas, and couldn't find it. Its
fingerprint is 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72. Its torrc is
stock "Last updated 9 October 2013 for Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha" except for
these settings:
	ContactInfo David Fifield <dcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	SOCKSPort 0
	ORPort 9001
	BridgeRelay 1
	ExtORPort auto
	ServerTransportPlugin snowflake exec /usr/local/bin/snowflake-server --acme-hostnames snowflake.bamsoftware.com --acme-email dcf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --log /var/log/tor/snowflake-server.log
	ServerTransportListenAddr snowflake 0.0.0.0:443

Its ORPort 9001 is blocked by the local firewall, because it is meant to
be only a Snowflake bridge, and not a vanilla bridge. (Most of the
default Tor Browser obfs4 bridges are configured the same way, with
their ORPort blocked.) There are these messages in the log (which I
exxpected):
	[warn] Your server (37.218.242.151:9001) has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.

Why is the bridge not appearing in Atlas? I initially suspected
https://bugs.torproject.org/18050, whose changelog entry is:
	- Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
	  before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
	  descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
	  longer than the ORPort reachability test.
	  Closes bug #18050. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
	  Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, commit a1f1fa6ab on 27 Feb 2005.
But if it's the case that an unreachable ORPort causes descriptors not
to be uploaded, then why do the default obfs4 bridges appear in Atlas?
For example:
	https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D9C805C955CB124D188C0D44F271E9BE57DE2109
	https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D3D4A456FCB5F301F092F6A49ED671B84B432FB8
	https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/11A3982C417AF37230F576006405BE5338F41C09
Actually, now that I look at it, I notice some other default bridges are
not present in Atlas, for example the two from
https://bugs.torproject.org/21917, which went out in Tor Browser 6.5.2:
	C8CBDB2464FC9804A69531437BCF2BE31FDD2EE4
	0BAC39417268B96B9F514E7F63FA6FBA1A788955

What's going on and how can we fix it? You can find a list of default
bridge fingerprints here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/Bundle-Data/PTConfigs/bridge_prefs.js
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