Hello Michael, Ringo & all,, Having trouble setting up TOR server behind firewall...

Thu Oct 25 19:04:19 UTC 2007

Hello Michael Holstien
   Thank you very much for that info, I am going to try that and post results soon. 
I can see these things do end up a bit of a community project, not possible for 1 person to accomplish alone... I have to admit I am new to Linux, liked RedHat Enterprise Linux because it is "supported" by staff, but staff there just abandoned me saying they don't support help with Tor. 
  I almost have this one last problem soved, hope to add to the project soon. 
                                                                            Algenon

Michael Holstein <michael.holstein at csuohio.edu> wrote: http://your.router.ip

username: blank
password: admin

Go to the advanced tab -> forwarding

set up two applications, ORport, DIRport .. select TCP, select 9001 and 
9030, and point them to whatever IP you have on your linux box.

Make sure you tell TOR to advertise your external IP address via torc.

~Mike.
> Hello Ringo Kamens
>   Nice to hear from you, and thank you for your response. I am running 
> RHEL v5, and a Linksys hardware firewall. I do not know yet how to 
> configure port forwarding, am going to check with firewall settings to 
> see if port forwarding is available there and confirm that I have 
> entered the right IP of my RHEL system behind the firewall. I will 
> reply with updated news, thanks for reply, hope ppl stay interested.,,:),,
>                                                               Algenon
>
> */Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>     It sounds like you haven't enabled port forwarding on your firewall.
>     Even if the ports are unblocked, the traffic might not go to the
>     server. You need to forward all traffic coming to the firewall on
>     ports 9001 and 9030 to your tor server.
>     Comrade Ringo Kamens
>
>     On 10/23/07, algenon flower wrote:
>     > Hello experienced TOR ppl,
>     > I am trying to set up a TOR server on Linux Redhat Enterprise
>     v5,, I am
>     > using a Linksys hardware firewall that does have NAT and have
>     modified the
>     > system to open ports 9001-9031. I have just installed TOR and
>     Vidalia for
>     > Redhat on my system,and, using Vidalia configured TOR ot act as
>     a server. My
>     > problem is: (TOR log below)
>     >
>     > ********************************************
>     > Oct 22 20:45:19.089 [Notice] Tor v0.2.0.7-alpha (r11572). This is
>     > experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
>     (Running on
>     > Linux i686)
>     > Oct 22 20:45:29.624 [Notice] Tor has successfully opened a
>     circuit. Looks
>     > like client functionality is working.
>     > Oct 22 20:45:29.769 [Notice] Now checking whether ORPort
>     24.22.67.176:9001
>     > and DirPort 24.22.67.176:9030 are reachable... (this may take up
>     to 20
>     > minutes -- look for log messages indicating success)
>     > Oct 22 20:46:37.127 [Warning] eventdns: All nameservers have failed
>     > Oct 22 20:46:37.299 [Notice] eventdns: Nameserver 68.87.69.146
>     is back up
>     > Oct 22 20:47:29.326 [Notice] Freeing linked Socks connection
>     [waiting for
>     > circuit] with 65 bytes on inbuf, 0 on outbuf.
>     > Oct 22 20:54:35.222 [Notice] Freeing linked Socks connection
>     [waiting for
>     > circuit] with 65 bytes on inbuf, 0 on outbuf.
>     > Oct 22 21:00:39.050 [Notice] Freeing linked Socks connection
>     [waiting for
>     > circuit] with 65 bytes on inbuf, 0 on outbuf.
>     > Oct 22 21:05:25.858 [Warning] Your server (24.22.67.176:9001)
>     has not
>     > managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your
>     > firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
>     > Oct 22 21:05:25.876 [Warning] Your server (24.22.67.176:9030)
>     has not
>     > managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your
>     > firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.
>     >
>     ***********************************************************************
>     >
>     > To simplify things, I have disabled Redhat's software firewall,
>     to make
>     > sure it is not causing the problem. I am a little unsure I have
>     configured
>     > my firewall to accept traffic on ports 9001 and 9030,, I can
>     supply info
>     > from the firewall to whomever is interested in helping.
>     > Does anyone have any good ideas about how I can get my TOR
>     server up &
>     > what the problem is?? Love to hear,,,
>     >
>     > Algenon
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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