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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 03:17 pm

Title: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 03:17 pm
Hey People

I have been trying to get onto the road with silkroadvb5piz3r.onion and the forums. Every time i try to load silk road i get a message which ill put below. I can only get on the forums using dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to ---------> Tor2Web. Can anyone please help me out. Much Appreciated. I also have the same problem with the forums unless i use Tor2Web.  :-\. I have had this problem about 5 days.

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                                                                 This is the error message i get when i try to load Silk Road and the Forums
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Unable to connect
     
 Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
       
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
    moments.
  If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
    connection.
  If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
    that TorBrowser is permitted to access the Web.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: TheDirtyMexican on September 03, 2013, 04:29 pm
Opps I did it again.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: TA on September 03, 2013, 04:31 pm
Been having the same problem. I can still connect but it takes about 30 min to get a login screen.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Pimpmyweed on September 03, 2013, 04:35 pm
I've been having problems now and again but seems alot of people have the troubles accessing the site on a daily basis.

Heres a thread i just read in the discussion:

https://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to/index.php?topic=209762.0
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 04:36 pm
Been having the same problem. I can still connect but it takes about 30 min to get a login screen.

Can you post the silk road url that you are using please.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 04:45 pm
I've been having problems now and again but seems alot of people have the troubles accessing the site on a daily basis.

Heres a thread i just read in the discussion:

https://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to/index.php?topic=209762.0

Thanks, This has been happening for about Three days now. I wont to know what the hell is going on. Can anyone access it without using Tor2Web  :o. Thanks for all the support. :)
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Tessellated on September 03, 2013, 04:46 pm
There is something funky with hidden services. Every time I reset tor I have a different set of hidden services not working and a different set working well.

I even create a few of my own hidden services and the same pattern. I could connect to some reliably and other I reliably could not connect to. Once restarting tor they were all shuffled.

I wonder if someone is fucking with the directory servers.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: TA on September 03, 2013, 04:47 pm
@ Dr.Drogan

http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 04:49 pm
There is something funky with hidden services. Every time I reset tor I have a different set of hidden services not working and a different set working well.

I even create a few of my own hidden services and the same pattern. I could connect to some reliably and other I reliably could not connect to. Once restarting tor they were all shuffled.

I wonder if someone is fucking with the directory servers.

I have no idea, But i hope DPR fixes this soon. I need to get some weed and chill ahhhhhhhh
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Tessellated on September 03, 2013, 04:51 pm

I have no idea, But i hope DPR fixes this soon. I need to get some weed and chill ahhhhhhhh

Like I said this is happening to all hidden services. The Silk Road appears to be up. I was using it 30 minutes ago and the forums would not work. I rebooted tails and now the forums work and the road is down. Both the road and silk road show evidence of constant use.

I think the tor hidden service directory servers may be under attack. Not sure but when you reboot your random choice of directory servers probably changes. Try turning tor off then on again.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: TA on September 03, 2013, 04:55 pm
Im on the road right now so its not down for all. Hey guys if you need anything just send me some bitcoins and I'll order for ya...... I kid I kid!!
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: Dr.Drogen on September 03, 2013, 05:02 pm

I have no idea, But i hope DPR fixes this soon. I need to get some weed and chill ahhhhhhhh

Like I said this is happening to all hidden services. The Silk Road appears to be up. I was using it 30 minutes ago and the forums would not work. I rebooted tails and now the forums work and the road is down. Both the road and silk road show evidence of constant use.

I think the tor hidden service directory servers may be under attack. Not sure but when you reboot your random choice of directory servers probably changes. Try turning tor off then on again.

Thanks Again, Has DPR not put up a post about this or does he not even know that these problems are happening!. I downloaded the new tor and it's not worked since. Ive tried reinstalling it about 3 Times but like you say it could be directory servers may be under attack. Ill try rebooting tor again.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: abercrombiekidjf on September 03, 2013, 06:25 pm
i have been having similar issues as well but have had success at points , it is a drag this has been one of the worst couple days to try and get on , sucks but that is part of SR , it will be back shortly the stay is usually on point this all of that nonsense its just time consuming.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: zappafreak on September 03, 2013, 08:26 pm
SR is always slow for me, but for the last few days it has been problematic. I can usually get on eventually by quitting tor and restarting.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: raz0r209 on September 03, 2013, 08:47 pm
I have to reload like a million times and hope it comes on... even then the website is cranky
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: cosmictourist on September 03, 2013, 08:56 pm
This is not a silk road issue, but a tor issue. See here https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html

The linearity of the increase implies that the quadrupling in users is not extra human users, and it's suspected that a botnet is behind it, the evidence for this being the total bandwidth of the network has not increased: https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html (scroll down to "Total relay bandwidth in the network")

Whatever these new users are doing is causing the hidden services to be slowed to a crawl, while accessing clearnet sites appears to be unaffected.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: snark on September 03, 2013, 08:59 pm
Took quite a long ass time to load but appears to be up and running at reasonable speeds now.
Title: Re: Can anyone help ll Silk Road has not been working for days ll
Post by: n0nc3s on September 03, 2013, 10:53 pm
it was pretty bad all day, but seems better in the last half hour or so