[tor-relays] Bridge clients don't *really* update dynamic bridge IPs from fingerprints?

Dan Thill dgt at acm.org
Wed Jun 25 17:20:45 UTC 2014


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.


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