On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:50:09PM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> > Sounds like a plan. I prefer bridge by default, but we can discuss that
> > later.
> >
> What's the rational there? While we certainly need more bridges, I'd like to
> see an increase in relays and encourage more Friend of Friend bridge
> sharing. We should include a bunch of common configs and make it easy to
> setup. Also, a public relay will be much easier to help with in terms of
> setup, I suspect.
Doesn't "make random people into public (middle-only) relays" have the
(well maybe not "problem", but "issue"?) that when GFW blocks them, they
(the random people who bought an Excito/etc.) won't be able to connect
to anything in .cn any more? Although I don't _often_ connect to .cn
domains, it seems unfortunate to effectively auto-ban these people from
Chinese websites.
Yes, it might. It depends on which part of the GFW you're connecting through. Also, I believe the same is true for public bridge nodes as well. The main difference is that the bridges may not be as useful as the relays and I suspect they will also be less easy to troubleshoot for reach-ability reasons.
In an ideal world, we'll write an enumeration of issues or benefits that arise from the different modes of helping.
All the best,
Jake