Quote from: snickerlover6969 on September 11, 2012, 11:47 pmHey everyone, so sometimes when I try to access the roads main site silkroadvb5piz3r.onion it's unable to connect. So what I did was use the SP search engine in the top right hand corner of my browser and search for the site. I clicked on the first link that said silk road login and the url is silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.to . It connects every time without any problems. Does anybody know if this is a fishing site? The only difference in the URL is the ".to". I've logged in multiple times and I'm kinda paranoid!Hi snickerlover6969,No, that isn't a fishing site, but you're right to exercise caution!The Startpage search result is simply an onion.to page. You can read more about onion.to on their website www.onion.toRead the Disclaimer, specifically:Quote from: onion.toBy using this service instead of connecting directly to the Tor network you are trading off security and anonymity for convenience. Know that we can identify the IP of visitors using this service (but chooses not to). We strongly recommended to access Tor Hidden Services directly using the Tor Browser Bundle to increase your security and anonymity. Accessing it through Tor is no big deal, but there's no reason to do so. The reason that it showed the log in page when using onion.to is because you were attempting to reach the site through a different Tor node than the node your current Tor connection was routing through.When you are having connection errors, hit "Use a New Identity" in the Vidalia Control Panel. You may have to do this a number of times before you see the page, or you may only have to do it once or twice.You can use the following site to see if Silk Road is up or down: http://zw3crggtadila2sg.onion/downornot/index.php?url=silkroadvb5piz3r.onion"Yes (but with 302 error)" means that the site is currently up.