Is there a problem with the Snowflake broker

[BobbyB]

While testing out my new standalone Snowflake proxy I keep on getting these error messages in a loop:

Error polling probe: dial tcp 37.218.245.111:8443: connect: connection refused
NAT type: unknown
error polling broker: dial tcp 37.218.245.111:443: i/o timeout
Error reading broker response: unexpected end of JSON input
body:
bad offer from broker

I know there is a broker option in the start up script but I know of no other than the default (“https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net/”)

I restarted it after upping the client count to 10 and minutes to 1hr and then got these errors

Even the extension on another machine gives me an error.

tcpdump shows that it is stuck at the above IP in a SYS-SENT state.

Or is this just me.

[WofWca]

Oh my.
The broker went down apparently.
Neither the client nor the proxy work for me.
The metrics page doesn’t open either.

Nice catch!

[WofWca]

curl -vvv https://snowflake-broker.torproject.net/
*   Trying 37.218.245.111:443...
*   Trying 2a00:c6c0:0:154:4:d8aa:b4e6:c89f:443...
* Immediate connect fail for 2a00:c6c0:0:154:4:d8aa:b4e6:c89f: Network is unreachable
* connect to 37.218.245.111 port 443 failed: Connection timed out
* Failed to connect to snowflake-broker.torproject.net port 443 after 131074 ms: Connection timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (28) Failed to connect to snowflake-broker.torproject.net port 443 after 133814 ms: Connection timed out

ping snowflake-broker.torproject.net
PING snowflake-broker.torproject.net (37.218.245.111) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 37.218.245.111 (37.218.245.111): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=120.4 ms
64 bytes from 37.218.245.111 (37.218.245.111): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=90.6 ms
64 bytes from 37.218.245.111 (37.218.245.111): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=91.2 ms

[WofWca]

Update: it’s working now.

The blackout started at around 19:15 UTC 2024-08-22

There is now an issue about this:

Snowflake broker outage on 2024-08-22 (#40374) · Issues · The Tor Project /...