{"id":138021,"date":"2014-08-31T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/tor-browser-problem-connecting.php"},"modified":"2014-08-31T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T21:00:29","slug":"tor-browser-problem-connecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tor-browser\/tor-browser-problem-connecting.php","title":{"rendered":"Tor Browser &#8211; Problem Connecting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>So this is odd - i've been using TOR Browser for a while now with  no issue, but then tonight I tried to connect and I get the  following error message -  <\/p>\n<p>    \"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at    check.torproject.org.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    I haven't changed any settings, and my log file contains the    following:  <\/p>\n<p>    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Tor v0.2.3.25    (git-17c24b3118224d65) running on Windows 7.    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Tor can't help you if you use it    wrong! Learn how to be safe at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/download\/download#warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/download\/download#warning<\/a>    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Read configuration file    \"C:UsersMyNameDesktopTor BrowserDataTortorrc\".    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Initialized libevent version    2.0.21-stable using method win32. Good.    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Opening Socks listener on    127.0.0.1:9150    Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Opening Control listener on    127.0.0.1:9151    Mar 07 00:41:46.791 [Notice] Parsing GEOIP file    .DataTorgeoip.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] No AES engine found; using AES_*    functions.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] This OpenSSL has a good    implementation of counter mode; using it.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] OpenSSL OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013    looks like version 0.9.8m or later; I will try SSL_OP to enable    renegotiation    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] Reloaded microdescriptor cache.    Found 3175 descriptors.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] We now have enough directory    information to build circuits.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to    the Tor network.    Mar 07 00:41:49.461 [Notice] New control connection opened.    Mar 07 00:41:50.328 [Notice] Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 0:00    hours, with 1 circuits open. I've sent 0 kB and received 0    kB.    Mar 07 00:41:50.440 [Notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing    handshake with first hop.    Mar 07 00:41:51.546 [Notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a    Tor circuit.    Mar 07 00:41:52.319 [Notice] Tor has successfully opened a    circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.    Mar 07 00:41:52.319 [Notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done.  <\/p>\n<p>    I'm not finding much help online - what could be the problem?  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20130307004911AAKkEn9\" title=\"Tor Browser - Problem Connecting?\">Tor Browser - Problem Connecting?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> So this is odd - i've been using TOR Browser for a while now with no issue, but then tonight I tried to connect and I get the following error message - \"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at check.torproject.org.\" I haven't changed any settings, and my log file contains the following: Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Tor v0.2.3.25 (git-17c24b3118224d65) running on Windows 7. Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/download\/download#warning\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/download\/download#warning<\/a> Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Read configuration file \"C:UsersMyNameDesktopTor BrowserDataTortorrc\". Mar 07 00:41:46.678 [Notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.21-stable using method win32.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tor-browser\/tor-browser-problem-connecting.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[261457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tor-browser"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}