SSL handshake errors in Tor/Bitcoin/Electrs

Hello,

I was running my node successfully for a few months then I need to travelling and move to a different part of the world.

The node was offline for a month, I reconnected on Sunday gone, 3 days later, it still still syncing, been at 98.xx%, the deceptive part was that the decimal place was changing, both up and down.

I deleted mempool and lightning apps and restarted, just to clear up some memory and try and reduce the startup activity. I restarted the Pi, removed and reconnected the network cable, even plugged it to a different port on the router but nothing helped, I check the logs today and see the following:

Attaching to tor
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn]  19 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn]  3 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 23; recommendation warn; host 6DFEB2BFBFA9DBEDCE2DE932F9D16EE7E0530ED1 at 193.189.100.194:443)
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn] 23 connections have failed:
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn]  20 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor          | Sep 07 14:19:52.000 [warn]  3 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor          | Sep 07 14:20:20.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 24; recommendation warn; host 79ACC2417F4301FC02F04165F31E20B851CC7AF5 at 109.70.100.69:8080)
tor          | Sep 07 14:20:20.000 [warn] 24 connections have failed:
tor          | Sep 07 14:20:20.000 [warn]  21 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor          | Sep 07 14:20:20.000 [warn]  3 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)

bitcoin

tor_server_1  | Sep 07 14:14:15.000 [warn]  13 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1  | Sep 07 14:14:15.000 [warn]  3 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1  | Sep 07 14:16:02.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 17; recommendation warn; host 3CCEF96871A49AC06149E4AA8E14D270D881F6D3 at 5.9.120.18:443)

This shows in TOR, bictoin and electrs.

Any ideas, what I need to do recover from this please?

Thank you for your time.

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I’m seeing this too on 0.5.1.

Is it hindering your ability to sync? I’m running 0.5.1 too.

bitcoin

tor_server_1 | Sep 07 10:51:05.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 100.000%. TLS write overhead: 114000%
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 11:38:29.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay. (Connection timed out; TIMEOUT; count 79; recommendation warn; host 82D1A2DBABE623D420122B1D59965277007B9446 at 89.58.27.84:1443)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 11:38:29.000 [warn] 78 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 11:38:29.000 [warn] 46 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 11:38:29.000 [warn] 30 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 11:38:29.000 [warn] 2 connections died in state handshaking (Tor, v3 handshake) with SSL state SSL negotiation finished successfully in OPEN
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 12:32:21.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay. (Connection timed out; TIMEOUT; count 80; recommendation warn; host BD6A829255CB08E66FBE7D3748363586E46B3810 at 171.25.193.9:80)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 12:32:21.000 [warn] 79 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 12:32:21.000 [warn] 46 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 12:32:21.000 [warn] 31 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 12:32:21.000 [warn] 2 connections died in state handshaking (Tor, v3 handshake) with SSL state SSL negotiation finished successfully in OPEN
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 13:40:43.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 81; recommendation warn; host 3B4C5729F829CA2E895B81AF834A63DB336D0FFE at 66.23.227.135:443)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 13:40:43.000 [warn] 81 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 13:40:43.000 [warn] 47 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 13:40:43.000 [warn] 32 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 13:40:43.000 [warn] 2 connections died in state handshaking (Tor, v3 handshake) with SSL state SSL negotiation finished successfully in OPEN
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 14:32:50.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 82; recommendation warn; host 7EA6EAD6FD83083C538F44038BBFA077587DD755 at 45.66.33.45:443)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 14:32:50.000 [warn] 82 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 14:32:50.000 [warn] 48 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 14:32:50.000 [warn] 32 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 14:32:50.000 [warn] 2 connections died in state handshaking (Tor, v3 handshake) with SSL state SSL negotiation finished successfully in OPEN
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:51:05.000 [notice] Heartbeat: Tor’s uptime is 12:00 hours, with 1 circuits open. I’ve sent 1 kB and received 2 kB. I’ve received 0 connections on IPv4 and 0 on IPv6. I’ve made 83 connections with IPv4 and 0 with IPv6.
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:51:05.000 [notice] Average packaged cell fullness: 100.000%. TLS write overhead: 118700%
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:53:29.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay. (DONE; DONE; count 83; recommendation warn; host 466058DF87C45EFECF07BDC9D823FF12ED7B6890 at 62.67.28.110:9001)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:53:29.000 [warn] 83 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:53:29.000 [warn] 49 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:53:29.000 [warn] 32 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 07 16:53:29.000 [warn] 2 connections died in state handshaking (Tor, v3 handshake) with SSL state SSL negotiation finished successfully in OPEN

I have fixed it, at least those errors are no longer there now.

I googled “connections died in state handshaking” on TOR discussion, someone mentioned it’s either ISP blocking TOR or timezone. Since I had moved to a different timezone, I thought I’ll give that a shot.

The logs in my umbrel node look clean, I will check tomorrow to see if the syncing is in better shape. It’s at 98.72% for now.

I reset my timezone and things appear to be working. Thanks for the pointer!
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No luck, I updated my timezone, rebooted, and no luck. I did move to CenturyLink which may be blocking TOR. I downloaded TOR Browser and it could not connect so I guess I need a new ISP…

tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:04:31.000 [warn] 16 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:04:31.000 [warn] 10 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:04:31.000 [warn] 6 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:05:38.000 [warn] Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay. (Connection timed out; TIMEOUT; count 17; recommendation warn; host 0A592CE8A53AECDF9130D37245C6460B238728DF at 77.50.84.6:443)
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:05:38.000 [warn] 16 connections have failed:
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:05:38.000 [warn] 10 connections died in state handshaking (TLS) with SSL state SSLv3/TLS write client hello in HANDSHAKE
tor_server_1 | Sep 08 21:05:38.000 [warn] 6 connections died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL object)