Hi hs-hosting
connectivity seems erratic, both for outgoing and incoming connections.
These problems are sporadic though, because sometimes it will randomly start working again, and it’s not predictable which VM will be affected when. I’ve had a VM running for a week trying every day to do an “apt get update” and it won’t resolve the name of the apt archive, then suddenly out of the blue it works. Same with the incoming connections.
Unfortunately this is a common occurrence for many users weather using 1 VM or 4. Starting late last year until present, there has been very sizable DDoS attack on the Tor network. What you are experiencing; erratic/intermittent connectivity, trouble updating system ( apt-get) , is reported on the forums all to often as of late.
I think torjunkie summed it up the best…
torjunkie
If you read through some Tor tickets or mailing lists, you see stories like:
Some form of exhaustion attack on guards in general, whereby the spooks are having clients form many multiple >connections to particular nodes, and then collapsing them all of a sudden, and then recycling this behaviour. No doubt >this overloads those (guard) nodes, leading to poor connectivity for normal users.
I also read reports whereby it’s suggested that malicious guard nodes will likely cut off / drop connections for >normal users who aren’t part of a set of IP addresses that are (most probably) being targeted for end-end traffic >correlation attacks. This is why people can also get shitty connections that drop out all the time, or circuits collapse >etc.
(Think yourself lucky in the second case, since they don’t care about confirming your Whonix posts and porntube >habits
)
All in all, the shitter my connection, the more confident I feel.
This is of course counter-balanced with the “frustration hypothesis”, whereby they may attempt to make your Tor >browsing so intolerable, that you are tempted to shift to a pwned guard that they have control over, simply because >they want to see what you’re up to with greater precision.
This is a common occurrence. I think the best advice, hang in there and give the Tor devs more time to figure this out. ( They always do ) And by continuing to use Tor, your telling whom ever is responsible for this, that we won’t give in. EVER!
Related…
https://forums.whonix.org/t/internet-connection-drops
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-version.html