Roger Dingledine: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:31:31AM -0700, Porcelain Mouse wrote: >>> Are most of your new clients from Iran? We believe that some popular >>> third-party software started using our bridges, causing these spikes. >> >> Yes. >> >> So, I'm seeing the same symptoms, again after about a week of almost no >> traffic. FYI. > > Thanks for running a bridge! > > I've heard versions of your stories from three or four other people who > run bridges too. The basic pattern seems to me that suddenly they have > tens of thousands of extra bridge users, and it lasts for a week or so > and then the traffic vanishes again. > > I assume that somebody is shipping a Tor client and a custom bridge list > in some software that has this many users. And they keep updating their > software with newer bridge lists. > > I remain curious what the software is. :)
I too have heard those stories. Yes, it's usually a few weeks from a particular country, then the unique users dies down and flat lines under 100 a day. I suspect Roger is right on the cause, and it would be nice to know what's behind it. In the past, I suspected a bridge IP became viral among a group of people, but now, some circumvention application seems more likely. I don't think the bridge IP is being blocked from the respective country, since a decent number of connections do continue from that particular country. g _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
