[tor-relays] Difficulties in running a private Tor network

[Karsten Loesing]

On 5/11/11 10:04 PM, joel hobson wrote:
> I'm attempting to run 3 dirservers on three different linux/unix
> machines. Most of the time, the dirservers upload their signatures to
> one another as they're supposed to, but I still have problems after
> that. I'll usually get messages like "Received http status code 404
> ("Not found") from server 'IP:PORT' while fetching
> "/tor/status-vote/consensus-signatures.z"" (the 404s IP:PORT are
> always the same) or "[notice] While fetching directory info, no
> running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 5)". Two of
> the dirservers give me messages saying "[warn] Configured authority
> type does not match authority type in DirServer list. Adjusting. (4 v
> 6)" when I start them up.
> 
> I have little idea of what any of these errors mean, and no idea of
> how to fix them. My torrc files are mostly the same for each server,
> and I've pasted one below. I hope someone here can help me figure this
> out.

> TestingTorNetwork 1
> DirServer dir1 v3ident=2D50FCA97045D078CD22E9092C9CF3E300084B87
> orport=5151 x.x.x.x:5150 FD65 3AE1 4133 31A9 20DF 8220 1F6F 8DF7 268F
> F238
> DirServer dir2 v3ident=EAC28AB68522174442AA214DC60C625675B2D1E9
> orport=5152 y.y.y.y:5150 95B9 79E9 4A37 161C EFCC EE13 E7C5 D7EA EB76
> B695
> DirServer dir3 v3ident=24BD756B7660827D0507319A87DD16F31250A29C
> orport=5153 z.z.z.z:5150 23D5 E382 86E6 1118 48E9 C848 2ECE B702 23EA
> A0E8

The :5150 part for all three DirServer lines looks wrong.  Every
directory needs its own Dir port.  Maybe assign Dir ports 6151 to 6153
to your directories, both in the DirPort and in the DirServer lines.

Best,
Karsten