server incorrectly believes IP address has changed

[Robert Hogan]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 19:52:43 you wrote:
>      On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:59:24 +0100 Csaba Kiraly <kiraly at dit.unitn.it>
>
> wrote:
> >If you did not specify your IP within the torrc, tor tries to guess it
> >based on your hostname ... and this goes wrong if the DNS is wrong!
>
>      As stated in the text you top-posted, if you had read it, I specified
> a host+domain name in torrc.  That host+domain name combination is updated
> at dyndns.org upon system startup and within ten minutes of any change.
> I use inadyn to test and update the dyndns.org name server data base.
>

But you didn't specify your IP in the torrc, so Csaba's point is still a 
possibility.

However, since you didn't delete cached-routers before start-up on either 
occasion my own *guess* would be that tor is using the old IP stored there,  
especially since 66.225.42.30 was your address at one point:
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mycroftsotherchild+66.225.42.30&btnG=Search

Whether it 's a good thing for Tor to just try the last known good address 
rather than  figure it out all over again on the off-chance it may be out of 
date, I don't know.


The tone of your comments below is unfair to Csaba. He was merely offering a 
friendly (and free) suggestion. No one would ever respond to anyone else on 
this list if that sort of thing was the default response.

> >I think messages related to this are at info level, so you can have a
> >look at info level logs.
> >
> >If you are running on Linux, look at your /etc/hosts file.
>
>      I run FreeBSD 6-STABLE.  There is no entry in /etc/hosts because
> /etc/nsswitch.conf is set to have the resolver routines check /etc/hosts
> before querying name servers.  An entry in /etc/hosts for the chosen
> host+domain name combination at dyndns.org would defeat the purpose of
> using inadyn and the dyndns.org service.  Although I have not spent time
> to familiarize myself with the tor source code, especially since I have
> yet to encounter written documentation of its internal structure, I am
> not an idiot.  I have also been doing UNIX system administration for two
> decades.
>
> >Check also what you get from DNS lookup for your hostname with
> >"nslookup" (both Linux and Windows).
>
>      nslookup is a pain in the butt.  I normally use dig.  In any case,
> as stated in the text that you ignored, the IP address had not changed.
> Therefore it had not been altered at dyndns.org.  And, yes, I did check.
> The address had not changed at dyndns.org, and it had not changed here.
> The ADSL modem+router's log showed only the initial PPPoE exchange that
> resulted from plugging it in.  If the IP address had changed, all of that
> would have had to appear in the modem+router's log.
>      tor has now been up and running for just over five hours since I
> stopped and restarted it because of the problem.  There has been no
> recurrence during this time.
>
>
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