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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Dragonfly on April 17, 2012, 07:49 pm

Title: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: Dragonfly on April 17, 2012, 07:49 pm
I've been having quite a hard time accessing SR lately, requests time out all the time.

Is the website being attacked in some capacity?  I'm not having any difficulty accessing any other .onion websites or websites through Tor.
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: Wonderland on April 17, 2012, 07:54 pm
Same here... curious as to what's going on. I am not particularly computer savvy so I'm especially nervous about it sometimes...
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: gazwel on April 17, 2012, 07:57 pm
It has always been like this for me. Clicking "New Identity" on the onion icon at the top of the browser usually fixes it.

Is it not maybe because of the extra security on the site? Maybe it bounces round a few places first?
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: darthvaderstar on April 17, 2012, 10:28 pm
whenever it's slow, i just stop tor then restart it again
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: czxtvr on April 17, 2012, 10:37 pm
This has been an ongoing process due to the large volume of people trying to get on SR..
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: mito on April 18, 2012, 11:19 am
Can an onion site be DDoS'ed?

Considering it's behind several tor nodes, wouldn't those be DDoS'ed as a consequence?
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on April 18, 2012, 11:57 am
Can an onion site be DDoS'ed?

No.

To those with problems accessing .onion sites: make sure the time on your computer has been set correctly and try again.
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: rake on April 18, 2012, 12:08 pm
Working really quick at the moment.
Title: Re: SR being DDoS'd?
Post by: Jaurk on April 18, 2012, 01:53 pm
It's been so speedy the past day or 2 compared to the last 2-3 weeks!