.onion sites fail to load with: (waiting for rendezvous desc)

[nickm at freehaven.net]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:03:02PM -0800, gogogadgetnecktie at fastmail.fm wrote:
> I'm seeing this message in terminal running Tor when trying to connect
> to any .onion sites:
> 
> [notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80.
> Giving up. (waiting for rendezvous desc), followed by a Privoxy 502
> error.

FWIW, it looks like Karsten maybe just fixed this issue with a patch
that went into the Subversion repository as r13540.  If anybody who's
been seeing this problem is able to try running svn trunk, it would
be great to see whether this fixes the problem.  Thanks!

Yrs,
-- 
Nick