problem with connecting to a hidden service

[Sambuddho Chakravarty]

Hello Roger and everyone else
 I have filed in a bug report for the issue. If you need the debug.log 
and notices.log files at some point do let me know , I can email them 
separately as attachments to appropriate email ids. They were too big to 
fit into the bug description page.


Thanks
Sambuddho
Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:28:02PM -0700, Kyle Williams wrote:
>   
>> This is the nature of a over saturated network.
>>     
>
> Actually, I don't think the Tor network is as oversatured as we think.
> I think it's just massively unbalanced.
>
> See sections 2 and 4 of
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/why-tor-is-slow
>
>   
>> Hidden services seem spotty to me too, but their's not much I can do about
>> it except try again and be patient.
>>     
>
> I think there's a real bug here. I've been playing with it on and off. I
> think that when Tor has a rendezvous circuit that it thinks it should
> like, and suddenly changes its mind, then it discards that circuit and
> starts working on a new one (which is good), but at the same time it
> closes the socks stream (which is bad).
>
> Fixing that bug, if it turns out to actually be a bug, would mean that
> hidden services are dirt slow when making the initial connection (until
> we make Tor itself faster at least), but they're not as flaky as they
> currently appear.
>
> --Roger
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