[tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection

[Thomas Hand]

I don't think you need to specify an external IP in the torrc file. You can
just specify 0.0.0.0:9050 for socks and 0.0.0.0:9030 for directory. Tor
will identify if you have a dynamic IP and resync with the network
automatically each time it changes. Also make sure it is a relay you are
running and not a bridge. A dynamic IP is no good for a bridge.


Tom


On 17 December 2013 05:55, abhiram <abhiram.chintangal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is
> assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am
> fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are
> there better ways of handing this?
>
> One thing that puzzled me was that when I first setup my relay it
> was unable to find the external address of my connection and its
> log files kept complaining that:
>
> "If x.x.x.x:9030 is not your correct IP address and directory port,
>  please check your relay's configuration"
>
> Obviously it wasn't my ip address, when I looked it up it was from
> another country. So my question is why is my relay advertising this
> specific address?
>
> thanks for your time.
> --
> Abhiram Chintangal
>
>
>
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