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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: MakesMeShout123 on February 25, 2012, 01:17 am

Title: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: MakesMeShout123 on February 25, 2012, 01:17 am
When i try to go to the SR homepage it keeps telling me the connection is timing out. I am having some sort of issues connecting the homepage. Obviously my tor is up and running and I can access other sites. Why would this be happening all day long? What can I do about it? Also, in case the site is down for everybody would we still have our forums?

Thanks
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: MakesMeShout123 on February 25, 2012, 03:40 am
Quote from: Duffman on February 25, 2012, 01:28 am
You should try using a new identity in the Vidalia Control Panel or maybe your tor isn't up to date?
You can check if SR is offline at http://warweedoeg6lfyoz.onion/updown
also I believe the forums should still be online even if SR is offline.

Thank you very much for all the info. I restarted Tor and was able to access SR just fine.
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: Christy Nugs on February 25, 2012, 07:33 am
tor just updated past few days also.
prolly wouldn't hurt
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: tcobambientAgain on February 25, 2012, 08:06 am
It's been pretty bad for me today.  The worst it's been in probably a month.  But I just log out of Tor and log back in and it stays up for a bit and then times out and then I just start the process over again.  Sounds like there's extra traffic today possibly?
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: dman420 on February 25, 2012, 08:57 am
these forums are a great asset this helped me get back on too thanks
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: kmfkewm on February 25, 2012, 11:32 am
The problem is SR is so popular that clients are DDOSing its introduction points with create cells to extend Tor circuits through them. Switching to a new circuit or identity will sometimes help because your Tor client discards the old introduction points it is trying to use and if SR has selected new ones it goes to them. SR could fix this issue by switching to the newest alpha version of Tor.
Title: Re: SR Connection timing out. Only Me?
Post by: sourman on February 25, 2012, 11:14 pm
^This. I just hope the po po isn't flooding legit circuits in order to make SR users connect through their own carefully placed nodes. You seem to understand Tor's routing better than I do; is this even possible? Either way, people will just have to keep restarting their Tor client to connect. Hopefully Tor issues a new stable build soon...