Tor's Q&A page has a [question](https://tor.stackexchange.com/q/6697/88) where someone uses bridges and `ExitNodes` and can't get a connection. So I tried to reproduce it: 1. Retrieve some bridges (with obfs3 in this case) and enter them into `torrc`. 2. Set `ExitNodes {US}` 3. restart Tor and everything is fine. 4. Add `UseBridges 1` and restart Tor. Now Tor can't get a connection anymore. I see the following log message every second: ``` Apr 21 19:05:42.000 [info] should_delay_dir_fetches(): Delaying dir fetches (no running bridges known) Apr 21 19:05:42.000 [info] compute_weighted_bandwidths(): Empty routerlist passed in to consensus weight node selection for rule weight as guard ``` When I remove `UseBridges` and restart Tor everything is fine. While trying to tracking it down I figured out that `ExitNodes` doesn't play a role here. A minimal non-working `torrc` just needs a `ClientTransportPlugin`, some obfs3 bridges and `UseBridges`.