Upgrade to 0.21.0 - No incomming connections via Tor after upgrading I upgraded to 0.21.0 a couple of days ago and noticed I'm no longer getting incoming connections while using Tor as a proxy. Was fine before the upgrade.
'getnetworkinfo' shows &quot;reachable&quot;: true, &quot;proxy&quot;: &quot;127.0.0.1:9050&quot; on ipv4, ipv6 and onion.
I've tried setting 'connect=myonionaddress' on my second node it's throwing the error &quot;connect() to 127.0.0.1:9050 failed after select(): Connection refused (61)&quot;. Not sure if there's any configuration change that I need to do since the upgrade?
The debug.log file shows &quot;Got service ID removedonionaddress, advertising service removedonionaddress.onion:8333&quot;
I think everybody using Tor with the newest Core has the same problem, including myself. There’s a Good explanation here why this is happening:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kzhhgk/bitcoin_core_0210_tor_v3/
My solution was to roll back (for now) to the previous version. It now works fine.
I still do not understand why this appears not to be backwards compatible with Tor v2. As the official bulletin release clearly states:
“This release adds support for Tor version 3 hidden services, and rumoring them over the network to other peers using BIP155. Version 2 hidden services are still fully supported by Bitcoin Core, but the Tor network will start deprecating them in the coming months. “