[tor-dev] Set up Tor private network

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Hi guys,

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2345 at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> On 26 Feb 2016, at 06:25, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
>
> On 25 February 2016 at 21:00, SMTP Test <simplesmtptest123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I try to set up a Tor private network. I found two tutorials online
> (http://liufengyun.chaos-lab.com/prog/2015/01/09/private-tor-network.html
> and https://ritter.vg/blog-run_your_own_tor_network.html) but seems that
> they both are outdated. Could anyone please give me a tutorial or some
> hints
> on building a private Tor network?
>
>
> Can you explain what you ran into that was outdated or wasn't working?
> While time marches on and tor is not quite the same as when I wrote
> that - I'm not sure what would have completely broken since then…
>
>
> Not quite remember the erros I ran into. I might mess up the key
generation part.



> Another option is to use chutney to autoconfigure a test tor network on
> your local machine.
> But it can be hard to use and hard to work out what's broken if it doesn't
> work.
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/chutney.git/tree/README
>

Chutney works!  Thanks a lot!



>
> Another question is: what is the minimum
> number of required directory authorities for a private Tor network? I am
> wondering if one directory authority is enough.
>
>
> I never tested with 1. I know 3 works.
>
>
> 1 works fine. But there's no redundancy if it stops working.
> (Even numbers are avoided because they run the risk of consensus ties:
> half vote one way, half vote another, and there is no majority consensus
> about certain information, or the entire network state.)
>
> Tim
>
> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
>
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