[tor-bugs] #20615 [Archived/Torouter]: Your Guard is failing an extremely large amounts of circuits.

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#20615: Your Guard is failing an extremely large amounts of circuits.
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     Reporter:  bug_bunny          |      Owner:  ioerror
         Type:  defect             |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Very High          |  Milestone:
    Component:  Archived/Torouter  |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.8.9
     Severity:  Critical           |   Keywords:
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 Hello,
 Its been several weeks, I am experiencing some problems with tor.
 Few weeks ago I started experiencing some connection drops, highly
 inconsistent bandwidth.
 I use to connect my RDP's through tor but connections are dropping
 abruptly after every few minutes, speed is also highly fluctuating, I
 never had this problem before.
 Then I decided to look at ARM, and I been seeing these messages over and
 over again.

 *TIME* [WARN] Your Guard ---- ($****) is failing an extremely large
 amounts of circuits.
 This could indicate a route manipulation attack, extreme network overload
 or a bug. Success counts are ---.
 Use counts are ---. --- cicuits completed. --- were unusable, ---
 collapsed and --- timed out. For referrence,
 your timeout cutoff is 60 seconds.

 *TIME* [WARN] Your Guard ----- ($****) is failing a very large amounts of
 circuits.
 Most likely this means The Tor network is overloaded, but it could also
 mean an attack against you or
 potentially the guard itself. Success counts .... etc.

 And

 circuit_package_rely_cell(): Bug: outgoing reply cell sent from
 ../src/or/rely.c:701 has n_chan==NULL.
 Dropping.

 What is this? is this some kind of attack?
 I tried researching about same errors, but with no avail.
 I am using physical isolation technique through virtual environment.
 I was using Tor 0.2.8.9 then I decided to try older versions but still the
 same problem.

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