ah. now armed with that extra information, i can only profess cluelessness. perhaps a “–verbose” option, well watched, would reveal something (maybe) good luck!

i believe that is what will be used by reflector if it is enabled/started as a systemd service. but, i think, that’ll not be used if you’re just calling it on the command-line. in that latter case, i think you must supply (those) command-line switches on …the command-line. (maybe)

Could you include what you’re currently using for the various reflector command-line switches? (e.g. --age --protocol --sort …)