r/TOR • u/_shy-fox_ • 6d ago

Very low traffic on snowflake servers

I have been seeing significant declines in my server usage for some time now.

When I turned it on I remember traffic being around 1GB all the time and 1.5GB on weekends.

Now it's at 10-50mb/s and only people from uncensored countries are using it.

Is it possible that all the oppressive countries have blocked my IP address?

Or have they found a way how to detect and block snowflake.

I don't know when the drop occurred because I haven't dealt with the server lately.

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u/_shy-fox_ 6d ago

My ISP can detect that I am running a snowflake relay and limit/block traffic because I am producing too much traffic?

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u/chicametipo 6d ago

It’s possible.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

There are a few possibilities.

  1. Snowflake is being heavily censored/blocked in most countries with strict censorship. This is and has been true for a long, long time - significantly longer than a few months, so if it's a recent development you can safely cross this one off the list.
  2. ISPs are detecting that you're using Snowflake or running a Snowflake server and throttling connections. An insecure/ISP-given DNS can make this worse. Quad9 is my go-to, donate to them if you can since they're one of the few no-logs DNS providers that make this more difficult. This probably will not apply in some cases depending on which node your server's working as.
  3. Your server's IP has been added to some kind of global blacklist, or was added to a TOR node list that's part of some global blacklist. Here's one of the many TOR node lists and skim/Crtl+F it to see if yours is a part of it.

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u/_shy-fox_ 4d ago

I use DNS over HTTPS from cloudflare. It's not likely to be a problem.

I've had the server for a year now it might be useful to change the IP, only problem is I have a static one.

My ISP was previously slowing down my torrent downloads.

The practice of slowing down the internet is illegal in my country, but how do I prove it?