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

[Hans Zaagman]

Rip Rock wrote:
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>
> On 7/22/07, *Roger Dingledine* <arma at mit.edu <mailto: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.
>
For answering your "the wiki doesn't work" statement, this is as it is. 
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