how to find near and fast tor bridges

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• Nanja Member

  March 2025 edited March 2025

  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.

  Thanked by 2hyperblast yoursunny
• hyperblast Member

  March 2025

  @all
  does anyone in frankfurt run a tor bridge that they would let me use?
• w3e4r5 Member

  March 2025

  interesting skill
• yoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

  March 2025

  @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 Patron Provider, Veteran

  March 2025 edited March 2025

  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 Member

  March 2025

  @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.