how to find near and fast tor bridges

hyperblast

hello.
is there any experience of how i can find tor bridges quickly and, ideally, physically close (frankfurt)? thanks for your help.

Nanja

As of today, the Tor network doesn’t natively support choosing bridges or relays based on geographic location, and there’s no direct way to request a "Frankfurt-specific" bridge. This is by design, as Tor prioritizes anonymity over location control.

Best way is to have friends who run a private bridge in Frankfurt.

I am sure there's a database somewhere or some workaround by doing something sneaky.

hyperblast

@all
does anyone in frankfurt run a tor bridge that they would let me use?

w3e4r5

interesting skill

yoursunny

@hyperblast said:
does anyone in frankfurt run a tor bridge that they would let me use?

Buy a Frankfurt VPS and run the bridge yourself.

MannDude

Update your torrc file.

EntryNodes {de}
MiddleNodes {de}
ExitNodes {de}
StrictNodes 1

May not work fully as intended and I'd toss in NL, LU and nearby countries for some variation. {nl},{lu}

You can also replace the country code with the fingerprint ID of specific relays. Fingerprint IDs can be found on the public page of relays. For example, our Netherlands sponsored Exit ( https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8BD67CDCC041655F3A693B3445AF72E5BF4A4AE2 ) has a fingerprint ID of 8BD67CDCC041655F3A693B3445AF72E5BF4A4AE2

Been a while since I've tried to force traffic through any specific region. Usually done when testing updates to geo dns and I want to make sure specific regions are served (or not served) content based on geo IP rules.

hyperblast

@MannDude said:
Update your torrc file.

EntryNodes {de}
MiddleNodes {de}
ExitNodes {de}
StrictNodes 1

May not work fully as intended and I'd toss in NL, LU and nearby countries for some variation. {nl},{lu}

You can also replace the country code with the fingerprint ID of specific relays. Fingerprint IDs can be found on the public page of relays. For example, our Netherlands sponsored Exit ( https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/8BD67CDCC041655F3A693B3445AF72E5BF4A4AE2 ) has a fingerprint ID of 8BD67CDCC041655F3A693B3445AF72E5BF4A4AE2

Been a while since I've tried to force traffic through any specific region. Usually done when testing updates to geo dns and I want to make sure specific regions are served (or not served) content based on geo IP rules.

thanks, but does not work.