server status 'offline'

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:51:21PM +0100, Stephen wrote:
> I'm new to running Tor as a server. I've recently set up a Tor relay
>node on Win XP using release 0.1.2.10-rc which I've configured using
>Vidalia. My node is acknowledged in the list of servers and for a
>few hours it was advertised as being online but now my server status
>is advertised as 'offline' even though I continue to run Tor & I am
>online. Any explanation/advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen  

I believe you're talking about the node MrBenn:
http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/tor/server/d/3709ED84709D69406AB09CF9264A993B0039FF75

If so,
% telnet 86.129.181.33 9001
Trying 86.129.181.33...

It just times out. You (or your ISP, but probably you) are firewalling
incoming connections on this port.

Perhaps you're running a Windows firewall that lets things work for a
little while and then locks them down again?

(Another option is that your Tor process isn't running anymore, and the
default Windows behavior is to just time out for a port where no process
is listening.)

--Roger