[tor-talk] Invitation to try experimental Snowflake Tor Browser packages

john doe johndoe65534 at mail.com
Sat Feb 29 08:24:19 UTC 2020


On 2/28/2020 3:32 AM, David Fifield wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:06:35PM +0100, john doe wrote:
>> I get stuck at 50% while trying to connect.
>> Is there specific ports that are required to be opened?
>
> 50% is the point where Tor needs to download the consensus, which can
> take a few minutes the first time you run the browser. (Because it's
> several megabytes and Tor doesn't have a cached copy yet.) If you wait a
> few minutes it should make progress past 50%. It's possible that your
> Snowflake proxy stopped working in the middle of the bootstrap process.
> If you restart the browser it should work the second time.
>
> If you keep getting stuck at 50%, click "Copy the Tor log" and let us
> know what it says.
>
> You don't need to open any ports. Thanks for testing.
>

According to my firewall logs, snowflake does require outbound UDP
connections.
How can I restrickt snowflake to use tcp 80/443 for outbound connections?


P.S.

I privately submitted the log to David.

--
John Doe


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