Nexus market mirrors, as published on this site
nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onionnexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onionnexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onionPublished as supplied. This site does not probe an onion, so nothing here is a claim that a given address opens for you right now.
A mirror going quiet is the ordinary case for a v3 onion. One of the three lines on the panel does not answer, the other two do, and the reader carries on with the second or third line.
What it is
A nexus market mirror is quiet when a request against one of the three onion strings on the panel above does not resolve or times out. The other two strings on the panel are unaffected. The site itself has not moved. The reader has a next line to try and the try is one keystroke away.
The panel above lists three lines for exactly this reason. If any single line on the panel fails, there are two left. If two fail at the same time, there is still one. If all three are quiet at once, that is a separate story and not the story this card is about.
Lifeline
- All three lines answering
- One line quiet, two live
- Quiet line returns, or is rotated off
What the silence does not prove
- It does not prove the market is down. A single onion can be unreachable while the service behind it is running.
- It does not prove the string in the address bar is wrong. Silence and typo have different signatures.
- It does not prove the site was seized. A seizure has other visible signatures the reader can look for on the trap and signal cards.
- It does not tell the reader when the string went quiet. A quiet mirror can be five minutes old or several hours old.
What the reader still has
- Two live lines on the panel
- The two lines above the quiet one still open. They point at the same market. The dossier for each of them under the mirrors rubric is unchanged.
- The vanity head as a first check
- The first characters of any line still read as the four letters that spell nexus. A silent onion at the right prefix is a different problem than a silent onion at the wrong prefix.
- The addresses reference page
- The reference page with the three lines side by side is still on the site. The card there is the same one the reader has been looking at.
A small next check
- Copy the second line off the panel above.
- Paste it into a fresh tab in tor browser.
- Wait a full circuit rebuild. A quiet onion does not always answer on the first try.
- If the second line answers, the reader is on the site. Move on and stop refreshing the quiet one.
- If the second line is also quiet, try the third line. Three lines are on the panel so a reader has three tries.
How a quiet mirror sounds different from a wrong string
A quiet mirror on a correct line and a paste of an incorrect string produce different browser messages. A quiet onion returns a timeout after the browser has failed to build a circuit to the service. A wrong string returns an error saying no such address is known, which arrives faster and without a timer. A reader who reads the message rather than closing it can tell the two apart in a couple of seconds.
A third case is a slow circuit. The line is right, the service is up, and the tor client is having a slow moment building a path to it. A single retry with a new circuit closes this case cleanly.
What the reader can do without probing
- Compare the three lines to a trusted note
- If the reader keeps a private copy of the three lines somewhere honest, cross the panel against the note. Agreement is a signal the site itself has not moved under the reader.
- Read the first block of each line
- The vanity head is the fastest read. Three matching heads is a first pass.
- Try the next line in the panel order
- The order on the panel is the order supplied. That is not a ranking, and cycling in order is fine.
- Wait a full circuit build between tries
- Two tries a second apart is one try. A rebuild takes long enough that impatience is often the reason a mirror is called quiet.
When more than one line is quiet at once
- Two lines quiet at once is uncommon but not a signal of the market. Two independent onions can be temporarily unreachable on the same circuit.
- A rebuild of the circuit is the smallest thing that can change the picture.
- If all three lines are quiet at once and remain so for a long moment, the market itself may be quiet or the reader is on a network segment that cannot build to the service.
- None of the above puts a date on this page.
Engagement
What this card does not say
- It does not say which of the three lines is the one to try first. The order on the panel is the order supplied.
- It does not say how long a mirror stays quiet before it comes back.
- It does not carry a status light or a last checked figure.
- It does not name a bridge, guard, exit or relay.