bug: monero onion nodes don't work reliably

[nahuhh]

Describe the bug
Onion nodes for monero only work sparingly

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. enable socks proxy or use orbot/invizible to force app over tor
2. Use an onion node

Expected behavior
for it to connect and sync every time

Screenshots
It just shows "connecting" sometimes.

Platform:

• OS: android
• Device: android
• Cake Wallet Version: monero.com maybe 1.13 til latest (1.16.4)

And no, its not the tor network. Same node works in other wallets and is reachable via curl

[xorblorp]

I'm having the same issue on iOS. It seems there is only one .onion node in the list and that particular one is not very stable. Sometimes it tries to connect for many minutes and never gets anywhere, and other times it connects immediately and has synced in no time.

[nahuhh]

@tuxpizza @OmarHatem28 ^^ spam / phishing

[OmarHatem28]

deleted and reported, thanks @nahuhh for pointing it out 🙏

[OmarHatem28]

for the main issue, we will soon be working on the in-app tor feature and will hopefully fix any problem along the way with tor connections

[nahuhh]

for the main issue, we will soon be working on the in-app tor feature and will hopefully fix any problem along the way with tor connections

I'm not sure what changed but i havent digged too deep.

1. Onion addresses are trying to use UDP. Tor should be tcp

I think this "might" be the cause. I havent yet compared to any other apps to see though.