At Tor, we are constantly trying to improve Snowflake to make it accessible to more people. This means we are currently working on enabling horizontal scaling of Snowflake to distribute the traffic to more than one server. After this update is roll outed, users will be able to choose one of the seco…

Just to be sure, my Docker container was started four weeks ago and the executable already has the mentioned parameter. Means this version is not brand new but already exists for some time?

Means this version is not brand new but already exists for some time? Yes the version is being around for some weeks, you are fine :slight_smile:

Hi. So this is version 2.3.0? Running proxy -v and I get “usage of proxy” (all useful things to know) but it wants a definition for the flag (-v). I suspect I’m updated as I ran @latest on July 23 and got 2.3.0 so checking just in case. ▶ ···

I ask because I’m not seeing “-allowed-relay-hostname-pattern” anywhere in the output of “proxy -verbose” ▶ ···

For user side testing what can we update our torrc to test this new snowflake bridge? Or would that require updating to a new snowflake binary?

[image] Quartermarsh: Running proxy -v and I get “usage of proxy” And there should be -allowed-relay-hostname-pattern string a pattern to specify allowed hostname pattern for relay URL. (default "snowflake.torproject.net$") Instead of -v you can type -blablabla. Took me a while to…

with git pull and restarting the process is enough? I saw that now I have de 2.3.0 version c.

I don’t think one will need a reboot to update the binary. Please try recompile the program and run it and make sure the program you run is one you have compiled.

The current webextension version is: 0.6.2. $ proxy -h Usage of ./proxy: -allow-non-tls-relay allow relay without tls encryption -allowed-relay-hostname-pattern string** a pattern to specify allowed hostname pattern for relay URL. (default "snowflake.torproject.net$") -broker…

(Edit) Problem solved. $PATH edited to include ~snowflake/proxy. Output of proxy -v now includes allowed-relay-hostname-pattern.

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