I’ve been running multiple standalone snowflake servers for quite some time now. After recently reviewing a drop in traffic. I noticed a similar pattern across all of my installations, after updating the snowflake software on 2026/08/12 at 04:00, regular traffic is no longer flowing through these long running servers. After the update on 2026/08/12, I’m basically seeing zero traffic being passed. There are VERY sporadic traffic blips on one or two servers where some small amounts of traffic are being passed but for the most part my logs are now filled with:
In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
My update process is as outlined on Tor Project | Compile Snowflake proxy from the source
kill -9 $(pidof proxy)
cd snowflake/
git pull
cd proxy
go build
nohup ./proxy >snowflake.log 2>&1 &
And this has been working on all servers for well over a year and a half. These servers are in different physical locations, on different hardware platforms, running Debian 13 or Ubuntu 26.04, located on different networks and are basically unrelated other than they run standalone snowflake proxies.
Example logs from a few servers - I have more but the pattern is exactly the same across them all:
Server 1:
2026/08/12 01:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 8 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 248033 KB (68.90 KB/s), ↑ 12056 KB (3.35 KB/s).
2026/08/12 02:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 8 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 1070983 KB (297.50 KB/s), ↑ 40787 KB (11.33 KB/s).
2026/08/12 03:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 7 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 32973 KB (9.16 KB/s), ↑ 3735 KB (1.04 KB/s).
2026/08/12 04:00:07 Proxy starting
2026/08/12 04:00:13 NAT type: open
2026/08/12 05:00:07 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 06:00:07 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 07:00:07 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
Server 2:
2026/08/12 01:00:50 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 36 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 196559 KB (54.60 KB/s), ↑ 13037 KB (3.62 KB/s).
2026/08/12 02:00:50 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 34 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 148555 KB (41.27 KB/s), ↑ 9554 KB (2.65 KB/s).
2026/08/12 03:00:50 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 30 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 289978 KB (80.55 KB/s), ↑ 16708 KB (4.64 KB/s).
2026/08/12 04:00:30 Proxy starting
2026/08/12 04:01:12 NAT type: strict
2026/08/12 05:00:30 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 06:00:30 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 07:00:30 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
Server 3:
2026/08/12 01:00:03 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 45 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 582806 KB (161.89 KB/s), ↑ 33424 KB (9.28 KB/s).
2026/08/12 02:00:03 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 39 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 188649 KB (52.40 KB/s), ↑ 13584 KB (3.77 KB/s).
2026/08/12 03:00:03 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 31 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 379997 KB (105.55 KB/s), ↑ 25692 KB (7.14 KB/s).
2026/08/12 04:00:04 Proxy starting
2026/08/12 04:00:06 NAT type: open
2026/08/12 05:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0 .00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 06:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0 .00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 07:00:04 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0 .00 KB/s).
Server 4:
2026/08/12 01:00:16 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 3 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 2482 KB (0.69 KB/s), ↑ 841 KB (0.23 KB/s).
2026/08/12 02:00:16 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 5 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 3659 KB (1.02 KB/s), ↑ 769 KB (0.21 KB/s).
2026/08/12 03:00:16 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 6 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 67734 KB (18.82 KB/s), ↑ 4253 KB (1.18 KB/s).
2026/08/12 04:00:20 Proxy starting
2026/08/12 04:01:00 NAT type: strict
2026/08/12 05:00:20 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 06:00:20 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
2026/08/12 07:00:20 In the last 1h0m0s, there were 0 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s), ↑ 0 KB (0.00 KB/s).
Wondering if anyone else is seeing the same?
Maybe I missed a memo somewhere? 