tor help

[woodcrusher]

Hello
I was wondering if someone could give me a little help i am using tor and privoxy on a win xp machine and when i first put it on several months ago it worked great but now i am having trouble with it i use firefox and when i try to surf with tor enabled it goes no where. oh i guess i should tell you i use the vidalia package and the onion is green and says tor is running.I also have a linux box and the same thing with it worked great when first installed then went no where i think everything is still configured correctly i made no changes.so could someone please help thank you.

[idontknowtech]

Do you have the firefox addon installed? and when you say it goes nowhere, what message are you getting?

[Paranoid2000]

Also, do you see any messages in Vidalia's Message Log that may indicate a problem?

[woodcrusher]

yes i do have the add on and no the log indicates no problems what happens is when i turn every thing on and type in address and hit enter well it does not go any where i know it is slow because of onion routing but not that slow. the browser says it is looking for address as normal but thats it.

[Paranoid2000]

If you are running a firewall, make sure that it is not blocking any traffic (browser -> Privoxy, Privoxy -> Tor, Tor -> Internet for example). If nothing turns up here, try deleting the cached-routers file (by default in the Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Tor folder) and restart Tor.

[woodcrusher]

Hi ok i tried what you suggested and still nothing but i guess i should mention that i at first thought that maybe my firewall was a problem so i turned it off and still that did not help so i dont think the firewall is preventing it from working i dont think.

[Paranoid2000]

Please post (a) the last dozen or so messages you see in Vidalia's message log and (b) details of your browser proxy configuration.