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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: pathenry76 on August 12, 2013, 11:05 pm
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I recently did a Derek's boot and nuke on my laptop and did a windows restore from DVD as part of regular security measures. Upon reinstalling the tor browser bundle, bitcoin-qt, and the litecoin client i noticed that neither bitcoin nor litecoin would connect through tor. They started downloading the block chain but displayed "no active connections to bitcoin/litecoin network. I don't know why it isn't working.
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So uh... if they're downloading the blockchain, I think they have to be connected. I'd double check that they're right. To do that, go to Start -> Run and type in "cmd" then hit enter. You'll get a command prompt. If you're in Windows 8, just hit the Windows key + X and select "command prompt" from the list.
Then type this in and hit enter:
netstat -ao
That will display every connection your computer currently has, along with the process ID of the program that owns the connection. You can get the process ID by hitting control-alt-delete and selecting "task manager" then finding the program you want in the list. Or at the command prompt type "tasklist" and hit enter. As for why they say they aren't connected, I don't know -- but my point here is that personally, I think they're lying :P (sort of... just being comical)
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Sanity check: was the browser bundle running? Was the bitcoin-qt client configured to use Socks5 127.0.0.1:9150?
Sorry if that seems stupidly obvious, but sometimes you have to start at the very beginning. I have beat my head against the wall trying to help people only to discover their Tor client wasn't running.