I was alerted by trinity-1686a on irc that Snowflake standalone proxy
operators were reporting on #tor-relays about increased OOM errors from
increased load as of 2023-08-28.
After looking at the Snowfake broker metrics[0], there's a huge jump in
client polls (seen by summing the client-denied-count and
client-snowflake-match-count).
I've attached a graph of the collected prometheus metrics that shows
this spike happening at exactly 17:40 UTC on 2023-08-27. It looks like
way too sharp an increase to me to be a censorship event, perhaps it is
a DoS?
It's still too early to see the bridge metrics from the metrics page,
but we should start to see the effects there tomorrow.
[0] https://metrics.torproject.org/collector.html#snowflake-stats
I've been working with the Shadow team on setting up pluggable transport
simulations in Shadow, and just posted a forum topic about it[0]. This
might be of interest to any PT developers or those wishing to do
research on pluggable transports.
[0]
https://forum.torproject.org/t/experimenting-with-tor-pluggable-transports-…