Running Snowflake Proxy on Tails

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I have a (possibly dumb) question. As soon as I heard about Snowflake, I decided to run a Snowflake proxy. My default system is Tor Browser on TailsOS, so I installed the proxy as described on Tor Project | Debian. When I check Status, I always see :
Mar 16 04:35:39 amnesia snowflake-proxy[14012]: 2026/03/16 04:35:39 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 connections. Traffic Relayed ↑ 0 KB, ↓ 0 KB.

I had occasion to log in to a different OS (Ubuntu) one day about a week ago, where I also installed Snowflake, and saw plenty of active use of the proxy that time.

I am happy to continue running the proxy on TailsOS if it is of any use to anyone. Is it?

Please Update your Snowflake Proxy to help us rollout Distributed Snowflake Server Support
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I have read here that running 2 proxies from the same IP was not a good idea. Don’t remember why. I assume you meant from the same IP.

Do you always get 0 connections from the one on TailsOS? Then maybe it is not much use.

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Yes. So far, I have only ever seen 0 connections on TailsOS.

I suppose it would have been from the same IP address. I had been running the proxy in TailsOS for a week or two, with 0 connections, and then when I booted into Ubuntu on the same computer, I regularly saw connections.

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OH! I misunderstood. I thought you were running 2 computers.
Keep the Ubuntu. This is what I use.

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I prefer to use TailsOS.

I used about 15 different Linux distributions over about 10 years before I settled on Ubuntu, which I then used exclusively for about 7 or 8 years, and for the last few years, I normally use TailsOS.

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Have you checked if there’s firewall logs in dmesg? Like:

[   29.626047] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=fe80::0001 DST=ff02::0002 LEN=48 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=255 FLOWLBL=9415 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=133 CODE=0 UID=0 GID=0

iirc Tails blocks most program’s network access attempts from physical interfaces, because that would risk letting programs run on Tails to leak network traffic outside Tor.