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They are chosen randomly. Being in the neighbouring countries does help with the ping time though.
Regardless of the location, I can assure you that the vast majority of snowflake users are from Iran. At least on my servers, 17 of them running from 4 geo locations. And by vast majority, I mean something in the range of 85% of users. So slow or not, it seems to be working for them.
Here’s a random look at the conntrack table on my servers:
1 Australia
1 Belgium
1 Finland
2 France
46 Iran
1 Netherlands
2 Poland
1 Russia
1 United Arab Emirates
1 United Kingdom
2 United States
1 Austria
2 Finland
2 France
1 Germany
1 Hong Kong
41 Iran
1 Italy
1 Lithuania
2 Russia
2 United Arab Emirates
1 United Kingdom
4 United States
2 France
2 Germany
1 Hong Kong
36 Iran
1 Russia
1 Ukraine
1 United States
1 France
39 Iran
1 Italy
4 Russia
1 United Kingdom
4 United States
And it doesn’t matter what time of the day, the ratio is pretty consistent. So rest assured, you’re helping.
Hello,
I recently came across this thread and am in a learning phase with my own snowflake node cluster. Using Ubuntu/Docker.
How did you come up with this list of counties using your snowflake and conntrack? I’m interested. Is it a set of commands, a tutorial, etc. I want to see this for myself since I support the Iranian cause and I also want to know where the majority of my traffic comes from.
@armforcefar
I put a script together to do the job. Getting the ip list from conntrack is easy, doing the geoip part is a paid service. However if used in a limited fashion, there is a free API that you can use.
I wrote a script that can be used with the free API and put it -among a few other scripts- in my repository Enkidu-6/snowflake for you and others that might find them useful . But please read the instructions before using them and don’t overdo it.
This is an aggregated results from only one of my servers which shows Iranians pretty much own snowflake.
1 Algeria
1 Canada
6 China
2 Finland
1 France
2 Germany
1 Hong Kong
320 Iran
1 Italy
1 Japan
3 Russia
1 United Kingdom
2 United States