[tor-bugs] #5363 [Tor Hidden Services]: Hidden Services randomly stop working

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#5363: Hidden Services randomly stop working
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 Reporter:  torbug               |          Owner:               
     Type:  defect               |         Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:               
Component:  Tor Hidden Services  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.35
 Keywords:                       |         Parent:               
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 I am hosting a few hidden services on my server with Tor.
 Recently I started having a problem where one of the hidden services
 randomly stops working, nobody can connect to it (circuit timeout error).

 It seems Tor is still broadcasting the hidden service descriptor
 (otherwise it would say "hidden service unavailable, try again later") but
 nobody is actually able to make a connection.

 There is no problem with my network and the Tor process is still running.
 In some cases I have many hidden services in the torrc but maybe only one
 of them is unreachable.
 There is nothing in the Tor log (one went down on 10th march, but last
 entry in Tor log was 8th march).

 Sending the HUP signal to tor to reload does not fix the problem.
 If I close Tor and restart it, then the hidden service starts working
 again.

 This is a very frustrating problem, because it is difficult to know if a
 service is down without manually checking them as there is nothing in logs
 and I usually don't check them every day.
 Some of the services get alot of traffic and some of them don't, so its
 difficult for me to notice if one of the small services go down.

 Sorry I didn't give much technical info and this is basically "it doesn't
 work" type bug but I dont know what more info to give.
 Is there something I can do to narrow down where the problem is, something
 like traceroute for tor would be useful to find out where the connection
 is failing.

 Thank you I really appreciate what the Tor Project is doing.

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