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<h2 id="status">Viewing the status of Tor</h2>
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<h2 id="troubleshoot-tor">Troubleshooting connecting to Tor</h2>
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[[!img bridge.png class="screenshot" alt="Tor Connection: Configure a Tor bridge"]]
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When *Tor Connection* fails to connect to Tor using public relays and default bridges, select **Configure a Tor Bridge** from the error screen.
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<h2 id="bridge">Configuring a Tor bridge</h2>
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<h2 id="hiding">Hiding to your local network that you are connecting to Tor</h2>
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See [[configuring a Tor bridge|tor#bridge]] below.
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If public relays and default bridges don't work, Tails asks you to configure a **custom bridge**.
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<h2 id="automatic">Connecting to Tor automatically</h2>
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Tor bridges are secret Tor relays that hide that you are connecting to Tor.
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<h2 id="bridges">Tor relays and bridges</h2>
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[[!toc startlevel=2]]
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Tails learns the current time by connecting to the captive portal detection
service of [Fedora](http://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt), which is used by most Linux
distributions. This connection does not go through the Tor network and is an
exception to our policy of only making Internet connections through the Tor
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[[!img lib/symbolic/tor-disconnected.png alt="Onion icon that is crossed out" link="no" class="symbolic"]] You are not connected to Tor.
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[[!img lib/symbolic/tor-connected.png alt="Onion icon" link="no" class="symbolic"]] You are connected to Tor.
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[[!img tor-connection.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]
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[[!inline pages="doc/anonymous_internet/tor/bridge.inline" raw="yes" sort="age"]]
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Default bridges are not available.
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**Tor bridges**
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**Public Tor relays**
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