Dir servers on private networks

[Jon McLachlan]

OR's are definitely posing their descriptors to the Dir, and the dir  
is collecting them, voting on them (V3), and publishing lists of them to

http://[dirserver]:[dirport]/tor/server/all

At the same time as the above statement is true, router descriptors  
are not being shared, as this dir log msg suggests:

Nov 10 14:39:25.176 [info]  
update_consensus_router_descriptor_downloads(): 0 router descriptors  
downloadable. 0 delayed; 0 present (0 of those were in old_routers); 0  
would_reject; 0 wouldnt_use; 0 in progress.

Maybe there is a way to force downloadablility of OR descriptors on  
dir servers instantly?

~Jon

On Nov 10, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Jon McLachlan wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
>  Our research team is a bit stuck on a problem of bootstrapping  
> generic Tor on a private network in planetlab.  The two  
> authoritative directory servers that we are running continuously  
> complain that,
>
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_trusteddirserver(): No  
> trusted dirservers are reachable. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_directory_server(): No  
> reachable router entries for dirservers. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] directory_get_from_dirserver(): No router  
> found for consensus network-status fetch; falling back to dirserver  
> list.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_trusteddirserver(): No  
> trusted dirservers are reachable. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [notice] While fetching directory info, no  
> running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 14)
>
>
> However, OR's in the network seem to think that they are publishing  
> their descriptors without any problem.  When we attempt to browse to  
> http://[host]:[port]/all into the Dir port of either of the two  
> authoritative dir servers, it consistently responds with zero  
> content - we are assuming this is why clients are OR's are not yet  
> communicating with each other.  We've attempted this setup on both  
> V1 and V2 dir servers.
>
> We have exhausted the specific guidance for running a private Tor  
> network found here:
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#OwnTorNetwork
>
> Any comments, suggestions, ideas, or guidance would be most  
> appreciated.  :)
>
> ~Jon