On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 12:40 AM, Rick Huebner wrote: [snip]
Or maybe I'm just totally misreading this, and my own experiences of losing all my bridge clients on each change aren't typical, but are due to some other unknown singular issue. How about you other bridge providers, how many of you are on dynamic IP addresses, and have you noticed a similar huge drop in traffic after a change, or does your traffic seem to snap back pretty quickly as it should?
I run two bridges (one is obfs3) off my residential connection (I had to stop running a non-exit relay because Hulu and other big sites blacklist tor nodes) and I'd be happy if I had *any* traffic. Over a two-month period, with 1 IP change in the middle, I've probably only passed about 100MB in actual traffic. Sure, I only have about 2MB/s to spare, but I passed several hundred GB as a relay before I quit. Surely after this amount of time, my fingerprint would have been given out a few times. Or are bridges simply not used all that often? There's no problems on my end according to my Tor logs.
I know this is barely related to your experience, but I've been curious myself about bridge utilization.