Thanks, Krishna & Fabian - Yes, it looks like what I thought were symptoms of a local problem were in fact hiccups in the network. Both torbrowser & the TB email client have begun to work properly on their own. My local testing shos nothing amiss. - eliaz
On 3/7/2013 10:52 AM, Fabian Keil wrote: > I don't use TBB or Vista, but I've recently started getting > "SOCKS5 TTL expired" errors (Privoxy's translation for SOCKS5 > error code 6) that seemed to survive circuit changes and > persisted until tor got a SIGHUP or was restarted. > > If you just refreshed the page a bunch of times but didn't actually > restart tor, this could explain the check.torproject.org issue. > > Note that I haven't correlated my logs yet to verify that this is > a real issue and not just a bunch of coincidences that looked like > a Tor problem. On 3/7/2013 8:08 AM, krishna e bera wrote:> On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:59:01 -0500 > Tor has been fine for me the whole week. > Suggestion: basic Windows diagnostics > 1) boot from cd ; memtest > 2) boot from cd ; chkdsk /r > 3) cmd ; sfc /scannow > 4) malwarebytes.org quickscan > 5) Windows updates > eliaz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm writing to ask if there's been some network or server problem the >> last few days? I've run into a variety of error msgs & non-reproducible >> difficulties, and before I tear my system apart I want to be sure that's >> what I need to do. -- gpg: E498E90D
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