This is a heads-up for a problem with Snowflake rendezvous that affects Orbot. In short, the default front domain sometimes resolves to a Cloudflare IP address rather than a Fastly one. If a user gets a Cloudflare IP address, the domain fronting doesn't work, and bootstrapping stalls with "broker failure Unexpected error, no answer" in the tor log.
https://forum.torproject.org/t/problems-with-snowflake-since-2023-09-20-broker-failure-unexpected-error-no-answer/9346 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/000314.html At the anti-censorship team meeting today, we decided to proceed with the workaround of changing the front domain. Another workaround that is reported to work with Orbot is to use AMP cache rendezvous rather than domain fronting rendezvous. https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/42120 _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
