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Re: More important: Bridges or ORs



Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:47:45PM -0400, Andrew Del Vecchio wrote:
>> I'm currently running my tor node as a bridge, and have been for a
>> couple of months now. Haven't seen much traffic, which I guess makes
>> sense. Which does the community think is more important right now,
>> running as a bridge or as a OR? I'm located geographically in the
>> Northeastern portion of the USA, if that makes any kind of difference.
> 
> Fortunately, I wrote this up as a faq entry during the June Iran
> events. :)
> 
> https://www.torproject.org/faq#RelayOrBridge

Maybe the FAQ should advise people with a static IP address to
run a relay instead of a bridge? If the IP address of your bridge
is static, an ISP or government that filters Tor will eventually
find the address and block it.