I mean the circuit to the hidden service through the rendezvous node. After that is established, it will stay open for about ten minutes of inactivity before you need to establish a new circuit to it and use the introduction nodes again. Well I have finally managed to get yet another circuit to the market. I will send more data through it right now. It is still connected, tries to open streams but they go from connecting to closed. Now I will wait a few minutes. Three minutes later I try again, and the circuit from before is still open, and the streams go from connecting to closed again. I waited another couple of minutes and this time I loaded the maintenance page, although immediately after I tried again and it went from connecting to closed. Now it keeps going from connecting to closed, but on the same circuit as before. I manually closed the circuit and try again, and now it fails to establish a circuit after multiple refreshes. For another test I made a hidden service that redirects traffic to a port with nothing listening on it. A circuit is established to the hidden service, but of course the streams go immediately from connecting to closed. I will wait five minutes and try again. Yep, it is still using the same circuit, and the streams go from connecting to closed again. I closed the circuit and tried to connect again. New circuit is used of course, and established without any trouble because the introduction nodes are not under attack. The same behavior as before, a circuit is established but all of the streams go from connecting to closed.