is this a bandwidth problem? my IP is a TOR exit, the client works and the server doesn't

[Rip Rock]

On 7/22/07, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I think the problem might be a lack of bandwidth.
>
> No, the problem is that your ports aren't reachable.


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
I had thought that I had socks4a because my Privoxy config file has the
line:

#
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

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.

I now see that there is an error:
Jul 22 23:53:09:137 [Notice] Rend stream is 120 seconds late. Giving up on
addre
ss '[scrubbed].onion'.

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.


> I don't believe I have a firewall problem.
>
> You should rethink this. :)



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.



> I imagine the worst-case scenario is that I'll be unable to resolve any
> > .onion URLs until
>
> Does http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ load for you? You may have to try
> it several times.


That address opens immediately with the message:
[quote]
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.

Some Hans Zaagman suggested in a post to
or-talk<http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jun-2007/msg00215.html>to use
http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/ as a replacement. 07/07/07.

[/quote]
The problem comes when I try to open
http://hy2644uxnz6zwt6c.onion/hidden/
which always takes at least 30 seconds, usually much longer, and results in
a  404 error.

If not, does it fail immediately (meaning you might not have configured
> your Firefox correctly -- you are using Firefox and Torbutton, right?) or
> does it take a few minutes to fail (meaning everything's configured
> correctly on your side, but your network is still too slow or flaky for
> it to work)?



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.

So anyway I went into the config file of Privoxy and added the following
below the forward socks4a:
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050
forward-socks4a / localhost:8118
forward         192.168.*.*/
forward         10.*.*.*/
forward         127.*.*.*/

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.

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.

Thanks for the hints so far.
Thanks in advance for any further advice.
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