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Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Sees 100x Clients Starting 2019-08-31
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- Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Bridge Sees 100x Clients Starting 2019-08-31
- From: George <george@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 11:10:46 -0400
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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
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