Connection refused

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 05:40:28PM -0500, Jon Cosby wrote:
> I'm getting frequent "504: Connection refused" errors on a few sites.
> This usually happens when I've been logged onto the site for an hour or
> two. Restarting Firefox doesn't fix the problem, the only thing that seems
> to work is restarting the Tor and Polipo daemons. Does anyone know what
> might trigger this? 

Could be a variety of things. It sounds like either Tor or Polipo is
caching a wrong address for your destination site.

Next time it happens, try killing and restarting only one of Tor or
Polipo, and see what you learn.

--Roger

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