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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Quazee on July 22, 2013, 04:04 pm
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Is check.torproject.org down for anyone else? It isn't loading for me, but it appears I am connected to tor as hidden services are working.
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It worked for me a second ago... I had troubles with it about two hours ago though.
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I get this when i try to load the tor check page
Sorry, your query failed or an unexpected response was received.
A temporary service outage prevents us from determining if your source IP address is a Tor node.
Your IP address appears to be:
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It's down. Go to another IP check website to make sure you're using tor.
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It's down. Go to another IP check website to make sure you're using tor.
grr. will do. thanks!
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They wrote a blog post about it the last time it went down:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-check-outage-03-and-04-july-2013
"Over the past 24 hours https://check.torproject.org has been unavailable due to excessive DNS queries to the exitlist service. It seems there are a number of individuals and companies with commercial products relying upon this volunteer service. We finally hit the point where we couldn't keep up with the queries and simply disabled the service.
This is a volunteer service offered as a proof of concept. We strongly encourage people to run their own. The code is available at https://svn.torproject.org/svn/check/trunk/.
The new Tor Browser 3.0 alpha series includes a new way to detect "tor or not" locally, without relying on a single point of failure service. This is the first step towards finally retiring check.torproject.org for good.
As of 09:00 on 04 July 2013, the service is re-enabled. We reserve the right to take it down as needed without notice."
As always, if you're on a hidden service, Tor is working for you. :)
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+1 astor ;D
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I had this. I was getting the cant connect message over and over. That said I still had the little green onion icon in the lower right hand of my screen saying i was connected to tor. Glad I'm not the only one.
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Had the same problem today would not connect for me, i deleted my tor and downloaded it again now when i start up the connected to tor is in all green was it not yellow and green before? also it seems very slow anyone know the problem?