<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roger Dingledine</b> <<a href="mailto:arma@mit.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">arma@mit.edu</a>> wrote:
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<br>><br>> I think the problem might be a lack of bandwidth.<br><br>No, the problem is that your ports aren't reachable.</blockquote><div><br>Okay, the problem is my ports. And because my logs had lacked the error messages described by Fabian, I guess I have socks4 where I ought to have socks4a, although
<br>I had thought that I had socks4a because my Privoxy config file has the line:<br><br># <br>forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .<br><br>But of course the little dot prevents the forwarding from being used. So I tried taking out the "." and LittleSnitch reported that Privoxy was now trying to access the net when I tried to find the hidden service.
<br><br>I now see that there is an error:<br>Jul 22 23:53:09:137 [Notice] Rend stream is 120 seconds late. Giving up on addre<br>ss '[scrubbed].onion'.<br><br>Now, the fact that I have that would lead me to think I have socks4a, but "
example.noconnect" leads to an identical error page, so maybe I don't have socks4a, or maybe some other thing is going wrong with the 9050 mentioned in the file and the 8118 mentioned on the error page.<br> </div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I don't believe I have a firewall problem.<br><br>You should rethink this. :)
</blockquote><div><br><br>Let me rephrase that. The problem exists whether my firewall is on or off, and it exists whether I activate or deactivate my "Little Snitch" program.<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I imagine the worst-case scenario is that I'll be unable to resolve any<br>> .onion URLs until<br><br>Does <a href="http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/</a> load for you? You may have to try
<br>it several times.</blockquote><div><br>That address opens immediately with the message:<br>[quote]<br>
The hidden wiki is gone. If you set up a new one and post the link to the or-talk list I'll link it from here. 06/07/07.
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Some Hans Zaagman suggested in <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2007/msg00215.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">a post to or-talk</a> to use <a href="http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/</a> as a replacement. 07/07/07.
<br></p><p>[/quote]</p>The problem comes when I try to open<br><a href="http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/</a>
<br>which always takes at least 30 seconds, usually much longer, and results in a 404 error. </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If not, does it fail immediately (meaning you might not have configured
<br>your Firefox correctly -- you are using Firefox and Torbutton, right?) or<br>does it take a few minutes to fail (meaning everything's configured<br>correctly on your side, but your network is still too slow or flaky for
<br>it to work)?</blockquote><div><br><br>It takes about a minute or two to fail, never more than five minutes. Thus I think my network is too slow, thus I wondered if more bandwidth might be required.<br></div></div><br>
So anyway I went into the config file of Privoxy and added the following below the forward socks4a:<br>forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 <br>forward-socks4a / localhost:8118<br>forward 192.168.*.*/ <br>forward 10.*.*.*/
<br>forward 127.*.*.*/
<br><br>This was inspired by reading the faq/configuration file. However, neither the new hidden wiki, nor example.noconnect, show any new behaviors -- they both show the same error page, except for the URL.<br><br>So I guess I am going to build the
3.0.7 version of Privoxy from source to see newer and more interesting error messages.<br><br>Thanks for the hints so far.<br>Thanks in advance for any further advice.<br><br>