Reported as offline in metrics, some bridges are online and running
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Since last week, some bridge operators are reporting that their bridge is 'offline' in Metrics, but they are online and running.
I can confirm that this is happening. One of my bridges is marked as offline, but on the tor logs I see:
Nov 28 12:02:57.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Since last heartbeat message, I have seen 200 unique clients.
Other messages on the logs:
Nov 20 12:23:29.000 [notice] Guard bauruine ($5B83DC983406651A0B4F6AE1940793CDD6A6F92E) is failing more circuits than usual. Most likely this means the Tor network is overloaded. Success counts are 198/283. Use counts are 63/63. 227 circuits completed, 0 were unusable, 30 collapsed, and 5 timed out. For reference, your timeout cutoff is 324 seconds.
Nov 20 23:04:10.000 [notice] Our directory information is no longer up-to-date enough to build circuits: We're missing descriptors for 1/3 of our primary entry guards (total microdescriptors: 5983/6034). That's ok. We will try to fetch missing descriptors soon.
Nov 21 03:24:31.000 [notice] Guard rixtyminutes ($01AE2DE314276C82FCCC3603A1C2F3238E6544C9) is failing more circuits than usual. Most likely this means the Tor network is overloaded. Success counts are 109/156. Use counts are 37/37. 132 circuits completed, 0 were unusable, 23 collapsed, and 5 timed out. For reference, your timeout cutoff is 324 seconds.Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/z2o7ro/bridge_metrics_showing_offline/