Problems starting relay

[Geoff Down]

I downloaded the Vidlalia/Tor/Privoxy bundle all together.
I'm pretty sure my PC hasn't changed from 192.168.1.2 from the point of 
view of the router (there's nothing else on the LAN). It's a Safecom 
SWART2-54125 BTW.
Other than port forwarding, I have no idea what other settings there 
could be. I have software to prevent outgoing connections, but no 
software firewall to prevent incoming ones as far as I know - the 
router is supposed to handle that.
GD
On 2 Nov 2008, at 05:30, Jonathan Addington wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> thanks for the response.
>> I have no ORListenAddress line in the torrc file - I will try adding 
>> that
>> line.
>> The OrPort line is
>> ORPort 9001
>> as expected for non-windows
>> Versions are
>>  Tor v0.2.0.31 (r16744)
>> Vidalia 0.1.9
>
> Did you download Tor and Vidalia separately?
>
> I assume this is the stable version of Tor?
>
> Also, post if these changes (or others) work for you.
>
> Finally, I obviously have no idea you are setup. But if your computer
> gets a dynamic address from the router (standard DHCP setup) you may
> want to check the port forward part again. It is *possible* that your
> computer changes IP's (again, internally) since you set up the port
> forwarding.
>
>> GD
>>
>> On 2 Nov 2008, at 05:09, Jonathan Addington wrote:
>>
>>> I can only be of so much help compared to many of the others on this
>>> list but I'll give it a shot as I am posting as it.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm having trouble starting up a Tor relay.
>>>> Once I set up port forwarding (I've tried to set it up for TCP and 
>>>> UDP),
>>>> should I be able to
>>>
>>> Tor only operates in TCP, you don't need to set yourself up UDP.
>>>
>>>> a) Ping myself from a looking-glass service
>>>> b) Traceroute myself from a looking glass ?
>>>> At the moment neither of these work.
>>>> I get 'cannot confirm you can be seen from the outside world' 
>>>> errors.
>>>> I'm on a dynamic IP, Mac OSX, I haven't changed any of the defaults 
>>>> from
>>>> the
>>>> Vidalia bundle.
>>>> the logs say
>>>> 'Nov 02 04:35:41.569 [Notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001'
>>>
>>> It probably shouldn't be listening on 0.0.0.0. localhost:9001 or
>>> 127.0.0.1:9001 are normal unless OS X is different from Windows &
>>> Linux (sorry, not real familiar with Macs).
>>>
>>> Changing that may be enough. It would mean editing your torrc file so
>>> the  ORListenAddress  line is something like
>>>
>>> ORListenAddress localhost:9001
>>>
>>> -or--not both-
>>>
>>> ORListenAddress 127.0.0.1:9001
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, your ORPort line (default: ORPort 9001) must match the above
>>> lines. E.g., if
>>>
>>> ORPort 2394
>>>
>>> then
>>>
>>> ORListenAddress localhost:2394
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> downie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hopefully this helps. If not, it is possible your port forwarding is
>>> setup incorrectly. If your computer gets a different IP from your
>>> router every so often it can cause problems (depending on the 
>>> router).
>>>
>>> I have found it is easier to make sure my Tor server has a static IP
>>> *inside* my network. E.g., my Tor server always has the address
>>> 192.168.1.xxx. This is is easy to configure with most routers. If you
>>> need to configure it this way and have not I or someone else on this
>>> list ought to be able to help you.
>>>
>>> Other questions for you to answer:
>>> 1) Whatever version or Tor/Vidalia are you running?
>>> 2) What router do you use?
>>>
>>> -madjon
>>
>>