Mars Market Reference Plain descriptions of what each step involves, what you will experience, and where it can go wrong

Mars Market addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype, and check the signature once you are through.

Address 1 marsautkudspgk6j23cxdtrk36ae4fpis2eoe7izu5y2rsksvmfji2ad.onion
Address 2 marshjhtog245vzjzcicnmv2ci6yljibvdm4pngq5kmkfvcutppboxad.onion
Address 3 marsiujka6lrsaqpnxiwvknthhzsrlmq77mnl2fi62guc4lwxif65syd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the check that settles it takes under a minute.

Reference › When something is wrong

Nothing loads

The most reported problem and the one least often caused by what people assume.

What is actually failing

Reaching a hidden service is a chain of steps that can each fail quietly, and every one produces the same blank result. The network deliberately tells clients very little about why something failed, because detailed failure information is useful to attackers, so you cannot see which link broke.

CauseHow commonWhat fixes it
A dead or slow circuitVery commonA new circuit. Seconds, and it resolves a large share of these.
That one addressCommonAnother address. Flooding and lookup problems are per address.
Directory lookup failingCommonNothing. It resolves on its own, usually within the hour.
Network conditionsOccasionalNothing. Affects every onion service at once.
The market itselfLeast commonNothing. Genuine and usually short.

In order

  1. New circuit. In Tor Browser this is in the site information panel.
  2. Try the other two published addresses.
  3. Open an unrelated onion service, which splits network from market.
  4. Stop and wait. Ten minutes, then an hour. Most incidents are over inside a couple of hours.
What not to doReloading repeatedly is the most common way people make this worse. Under congestion every reload adds load and pushes you toward a limiter, which turns slow into refused.

How long before it means something

Hours mean nothing. An address unreachable for an afternoon is having an ordinary bad day. Days mean something: an address unreachable for a week while the others work normally has probably been retired, and the right response is to delete it rather than keep trying. All three unreachable for days is the only shape that justifies real concern, and almost nobody waits long enough to distinguish it.