Tor used to be blocked by China's GFW, but now it is back! Here is how
to manually config tor to use bridge without the vidalia GUI, useful for
FreeBSD and GNU/Linux users, especially for those who live in China.
It has been so long a time, since August 2009, that I can not visit
blogger, youtube, twitter, vimeo, picasa, or anything else that is
contributed and enjoyed by other Internet users, even with Tor, which
greatly helped me before in using the Internet free and securely.
It's all because of GFW, on which I don't want to comment too much. What
I support is Chinese government to censor the Internet and to guide
masses, for I am a somewhat patriotic guy not interested in dog-eat-dog
politics, and CCP did change and improve the life standard of my family
in the last few decades.
However, would you PLEASE *distinct* those so-called anti-government
content from other normal information? Would you please give us some
restricted freedom under your great and wisdom control?
All I want and need is something interesting and new, like a funny cat
picture, a comedy video, or some latest news from my friends. Give me
access to these good things, and block/remove/delete/whatever the other
fucking damn FLG, CNN, or Tibeter. Who cares!?
Okay. Let's come to the config file for using tor with bridge.
FILES
/etc/tor/torrc
OPTIONS
Bridge IP:ORPort [fingerprint]
When set along with UseBridges, instructs Tor to use the relay at
"IP:ORPort" as a "bridge" relaying into the Tor network. If
"fingerprint" is provided (using the same format as for
DirServer), we will verify that the relay running at that
location has the right fingerprint. We also use fingerprint to
look up the bridge descriptor at the bridge authority, if it's
provided and if UpdateBridgesFromAuthority is set too.
UseBridges 0|1
When set, Tor will fetch descriptors for each bridge listed in
the "Bridge" config lines, and use these relays as both entry
guards and directory guards. (Default: 0)
UpdateBridgesFromAuthority 0|1
When set (along with UseBridges), Tor will try to fetch bridge
descriptors from the configured bridge authorities when
feasible. It will fall back to a direct request if the authority
responds with a 404. (Default: 0)
EXAMPLES
# This example is copied and pasted from a vidalia generated torrc.
# The IP and port of bridges have been modified. ^&^
# For real tor bridges, try Google.
Bridge 8.98.151.48:80
Bridge 81.59.250.53:43
Bridge 108.125.18.153:91
UpdateBridgesFromAuthority 1
UseBridges 1
You can also get these help from
$man tor
And, finally, once again, I'd like to say it is the government's right
and responsibility to censor and to guide masses. I support the
government's position and shall defeat the FLG, CNN, and Tibeter. I
support China!!
