Posted on 12/09/2022 8:22:34 PM PST by Angelino97
My TOR browser updated to 12.0. After that, it wouldn't connect to the internet. I push "Connect" and it says "Connecting..." but minutes pass and nothing.
I tried changing my VPN's point of origin. I tried rebooting. But it doesn't help.
I'm running Windows 7 64 bit Pro.
I am guessing, the problem is DNS server activity.
Clear DNS on your computing device:
https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=13375
Clear Internet browser caches.
Quit everything and restart your computing device.
May interest:
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-does-tor-route-dns-requests
One of the answers:
TOR clients do not, in general, directly do DNS requests. When you open a connection through the tor network you usually ask your client (on its socks ports) to connect you to a hostname and port, say www.example.com:80.
Your TOR client, once it has created a circuit, will send that hostname and port to the exit node in its RELAY_BEGIN cell.
The exit node will then do a DNS resolve and open a TCP connection to the target. Once that’s established it will tell your client that the connection is open, and for informational purposes will also tell your client what address that hostname resolved to.
TOR, in addition to that, has some sort of “remote DNS resolve” protocol built in. This support allows clients to query for certain resource types, like IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Here too, the exit node does the actual DNS packet sending and receiving and just relays the answer to the client.
No UDP packets are actually ever routed from the client.
Remove & reinstall. Usually less time-consuming that troubleshooting.
I wasn't able to uninstall. For some odd reason, neither my Windows 7 Control Panel, nor CCleaner list TOR among the programs that can be uninstalled.
However, I reinstalled without uninstalling, and that fixed it.
Yep the answer was in your question. Something had changed. You updated it and it quit working so the update was the obvious culprit. Had the same problem with my VPN one time. Had to uninstall and reinstall but it was still broken so I uninstalled and reinstalled the previous version which fixed it. Then I didn’t update it again until a newer version had come out which only took a few days. That tells me a lot of people had problems and reported it so they fixed it.
Bkmk
I don’t mean to hijack a thread, but since it’s a computer thread I thought I’d jump in. Today I am going to install a new SSD and RAM in my older laptop. The physical act of doing it looks relatively simple, but does anybody have any tips or advise? I’m just a little nervous about it.
I changed all my hard drives to SSD by just purchasing SSD’s with the exact same interface as the hard drive. ie: typically SATA
I’ll bite.
Have you ever replaced components in a laptop?
There is value in having the proper tools. A laptop repair kit is under $30, which includes the plastic pry tools and suction cup to assist in disassembly. The challenge for the inexperienced are the screws and getting the back plane off for the memory without breaking anything and/or stripping screws. A laptop which has never been disassembled poses a high risk of stripping screws with cheap bits (ask me how I know). The additional risk is discovering hidden old damage; I’ve disassembled laptops which had no apparent damage and plastic bits fell out after taking screws out of it; Dell is the major culprit here for cheap plastic used in manufacture).
The hard drive is easy, presuming the manufacturer didn’t complicate it. You can purchase a cable to connect via USB to copy the entire hard drive to the new SSD. Once the back is off, you should have easy access to both the memory (usually secured with a standard retention clip) and the hard drive (usually secured with one or several screws).
Search for and watch a couple videos for your brand of laptop for these tasks. Pay attention to how to lay out screws so you reinstall the correct ones in the same locations (very important in many cases).
If you are not 100% confident of performing these tasks and accept the risk of failure, the presumption is that you don’t wish to incur the expense of having a shop do this.
If the latter applies and you’re not 100% confident, there are numerous services in nearly every area which offer such tech assistance either as education (think community center), discount services (community college) or charities (senior support, if that applies). Have to ask: Do you not have a friend with a grandchild adept at such things? It’s worth asking. Pizza is a valuable commodity in this respect.
Best of luck. I know that retail services are not cheap (though I’ve never paid for such; presume the obvious).
I just wanted thank you for your replies regarding upgrading my computer. Just for general information, I did do it. It was a frustrating nightmare for the most part, but I am commenting with a new SSD and 10 more GB of RAM. The improvement in speed is...okay. Not what I expected. If I had to do it again I would pay somebody.
Thanks for the note. Congrats for the successful job, by the way.
At least the lesson learned was not a painful one.
My frustration:
I’m tech-oriented and have grown increasingly irritated at the limitations imposed by laptops, despite their claims. My wife recently suffered hardware failure on a >$2000 high end graphics laptop (we opted to send it in) and I’m currently using a >$1000 brand name one which regularly crashes simply browsing the internet on an extended screen (it’s merely months old). I shifted my gaming to consoles a number of years ago specifically to avoid the pitfalls of chasing computer hardware ($$).
IMHPO (in my humble, professional opinion) based upon experience in the past few years, the quality and pricing of consumer computer products appears to have shifted against us, rather than benefiting us with lower prices and higher quality.
As a tech professional - among other things - I will certainly NOT be sinking money into a laptop for any reason other than email, documents and internet access (and I will never buy anything with AMD chips ever again). My wife has learned an expensive lesson and, in all likelihood, I will be building her a high-end graphics PC (and will probably inherit her repaired laptop).
Personally, I am none too happy about having to build a computer again. I thought we were long past that. I don’t know if it’s chinese crap or what, but here we are.
As an aside, I personally do not recommend purchasing upgrades for a laptop that is over 3 years old if it is not a high-end one; it’s better to purchase new. And paying for repairs is a major judgment call.
Advice: Data is the commodity (computers are disposable and prone to failure). Invest in spare external hard drives (platters, NOT ssd) and back up regularly.
Sometimes I think we live in a beta test world. Once the bugs get ironed out on the latest technology, everything is immediately upgraded to where it is, once again, in beta testing.
I upgraded this computer really as a project. I only spent about $80 for the memory and SSD. I’ll probably get a new one soon anyway. My laptop randomly booted about 3 times last night, but has been working flawlessly this morning so I’m not sure what that’s about.
I don’t save data on my computer. I have an SD card on which I store what little I do store.
Thanks.
Russians.
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