Tor connection problems from within "bundesagentur für arbeit" network

[Christopher Davis]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 02:00:23AM +0200, Josua Schmid wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I  tried to set up a tor connection from within the "bundesagentur für
> arbeit" network, but something seems to block the tor network access.
> 
> I  introduced  bridges  in  the torrc config file but it didn't change
> anything. I'm still not able to connect.
> 
> Here is my latest torrc:
> 
> SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1
> UpdateBridgesFromAuthority 1
> UseBridges 1
> ControlPort 9051
> Log notice stdout
> HashedControlPassword 16:B12A2B34CCB5F7016007E3E940E131C208588769CC2C1353568E1C250F
> 
> Bridge 86.76.117.112:443 CFED61F1D08A81607AB99D9293107A831B714785
> Bridge 85.25.147.200:9003 8EAB9AFB5EDA3E3E4AE579120410A2F2C23C7AD9
> Bridge 195.131.125.133:443 9E0C6CD2E47FB4E0FED76807275FB0F68B463B5A
> bridge 60.16.182.53:9001 c9111bd74a710c0d25dda6b35e181f1aa7911133
> bridge 87.237.118.139:444 c18dde4804e8fcb48464341ca1375eb130453a39
> bridge 60.63.97.221:443 ab5c849ed5896d53052e43966ee9aba2ff92fb82
> bridge 62.47.154.148:443 55d8530e5ba7445390139d357063a082504ef0c2
> bridge 216.9.190.124:443 9ed5cec4ad8c0e555a02a713540e5dbd96644ef3
> bridge 193.19.77.145:444 03e175aea60ad6643ccb8bf22f1bb2b7b88c1c46
>
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Does your network block ports other than 80 and 443 (http traffic)?
You might try disabling bridges and adding "FascistFirewall 1" to
your configuration file to ensure that Tor only makes connections
to web-related ports.