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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Tommyhawk on April 29, 2012, 01:46 am

Title: Has SR been down?
Post by: Tommyhawk on April 29, 2012, 01:46 am
I haven't been able to get on till now, for the past 2 days or so :s.

Has this been a server error, a Tor Error on my behalf? Or what?
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: captainjojo on April 29, 2012, 02:40 am
No, SR has been up, as well as the forums.  Chances are you were just having TOR problems.  Make sure you have the most current TOR bundle.

What I find helps is to click on 'Use A New Identity' on the Vidalia panel when the web pages start timing out.  That usually works and the pages start loading agin.
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: blackend646 on April 29, 2012, 02:45 am
^ I can also vouch that doing this seems to help
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: weedhead on April 29, 2012, 03:02 am
I had a  problem too.  Hey OP,  can you PLEASE PM me with what OS Your using...   Did any other onion sites work?.   This whole thing worried me too.  I thought the TOR network was under attack the other day.
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: Tommyhawk on April 29, 2012, 03:55 am
Here's the thing guys.

I have been trying to get on for the past 2 days

I have been at my computer for over 30-40 hours starting tor, and trying to connect to SR and the forums. Along with "Using a new Identity" 5x times in attempt to connect to SR before I restarted Tor and tried again.

It's been giving me so much shit. Why is this happening now, when It's been perfect all week?

Not to mention, the site also had loading errors when I tried to access it through Tor2Web.org so I just assumed the SR servers were down.

@Weedhead, the only onion sites I tried to get to where the forum here and SR. I tried accessing it on Win7 32x, Win 7 64x, Win XP, and Ubuntu. All had no success in accessing.
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on April 29, 2012, 09:10 am
Make sure that the system time on your computer has been synchronized against an Internet time server, and restart Tor.
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: captainjojo on April 30, 2012, 12:11 am
It definitely sounds like there is something wrong at your end.  You should try downloading a new Tor bundle and running it from a clean directory, don't install it over top your old one.

Also, do you have any Antivirus software or network firewall software installed?  If you do try disabling it for 10 minutes while you try connecting. Normally I wouldn't think it would effect TOR but you never know.
Title: Re: Has SR been down?
Post by: Pileus on May 02, 2012, 10:50 pm
I have not been able to log in Today. Up till today, no problem. So it has been up.
I still cannot log in. I found the forum address online.