[tor-talk] Time to set up and connect to hidden service

[Gitano]

On 2011-04-25 02:54, cmeclax-sazri wrote:

> When two people talk to each other with TorChat, each connects to a hidden 
> service set up by the other. This often takes about a minute.

This is normal timeout. I use TorChat 0.9.9.534 with Tor v0.2.2.24-alpha
on Ubuntu 10.04 and it works very well.

> What are the steps in setting up and connecting to a hidden service,
> and how long does each take?

Some time ago there was a thread on this list:

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2010/msg00106.html