[tor-talk] attacks on Tor hidden services

[Gozu-san]

On 23/10/11 07:14, intrigeri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Gozu-san wrote (23 Oct 2011 04:17:12 GMT) :
>> So, I open a few instances of TAILS 0.8.1 routed via VPN services to
>> various exit IP addresses. All of them can load my private test
>> sites, with typical delays of a minute or so. However, all of them
>> report "Proxy error: 504 ... General SOCKS server failure" for the
>> Freedom Hosting site, and they do so immediately, with no lag. These
>> are LiveCD instances, by the way, so there's no local Polipo cache.
> 
>> Conversely, using an old Tor installation, freshly booted, the Freedom
>> Hosting site comes up, with typical delay of a minute or so.
> 
> This might be a bug in Tails.
> If you're willing to help us investigate it on Tails side,
> let's move the discussion there: https://tails.boum.org/bug_reporting/

I'll be happy to help.  However, I don't think that it's fundamentally a
Tails issue.  I see the same immediate 504 error for FH with a recent
Ubuntu installation running Tor 0.2.2.33 with Firefox 3.6.23 and
Torbutton 1.4.4.1.  Using Ra's Tor fast gateway 0.0.1 (with Tor
0.2.1.24) and Ubuntu with Firefox, I get a different error: "The
connection was reset".  It's also immediate, with no network lag.  And
all the while, my old Tor installation (running Tor 0.2.2.33) is loading
FH just fine.