Help with JanusVM?

Mon Dec 27 01:22:03 UTC 2010

 Hello
anyone have this happen? suddenly I get no more mail from or-talk and any emails I send or post don't go to or-talk nor are they sent back to me as undeliverable?

I had to set up a new account and subscribe again but wonder what happened as I don't know what happened.

ThanX

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com>
To: or-talk at freehaven.net
Sent: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 8:14 am
Subject: Re: Help with JanusVM?

Sorry to hear your having troubles with JanusVM and for the lack of information for Linux users.

JanusVM is not a zombie/defunct/dead as I use it quite often with different operating systems, even with my smart phone, and it works just fine.

Let's say JanusVM's settings are:

eth0 (On VMware's bridged interface)
IP: 192.168.1.102
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

eth1 (On VMware's NAT'd or Host-only interface)
IP: 192.168.50.128
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

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Let's say your PC NIC settings are as follows:
IP: 192.168.1.100
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1

All you have to do is change the Gateway and DNS settings on your PC to:
IP: 192.168.1.100
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.102
DNS: 4.2.2.2

Any other PC on your LAN can do the same using the 192.168.1.102 address as their gateway and set their DNS to an external DNS server.

OR if you want to isolate your PC from the LAN you could use:
IP:  192.168.50.130
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.50.128
DNS: 4.2.2.2

Notice the gateway address is now pointing at JanusVM, and the DNS address is using an IP OUTSIDE YOUR LAN.  The reason you need your DNS to point outside your local LAN is to prevent DNS leaks.  When the DNS server is outside your LAN, the DNS resolve request get's sent to JanusVM where it is redirected to Tor's DNS port.

Expect JanusVM to be updated soon because of the recent security bug found in Tor.  
I'm still in holiday mode with family and friends and will update it soon.  The reason you don't see it updated every month is because we use a little software as possible to create it, reducing the amount of updates/patches required to keep it secure.  Generally the only thing that we have to update is Tor.

Happy Holidays,

Kyle

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Praedor Atrebates <praedor at yahoo.com> wrote:

Few extra bits of info:

JanusVM + vmware-player (on linux) + kvpnc as the intended means of connecting to JanusVM.  What I cannot do is get kvpnc to connect to JanusVM (problems with the Janus certs and/or config - but NO explanations or howtos on setting up the whole thing anywhere!

I don't know what interface produced by JanusVM is the gateway (tun0? vmnet1? vmnet8?).

praedor

On Saturday, December 25, 2010 03:03:22 pm you wrote:
> Can anyone here help out with setting up JanusVM?  I cannot find any site that provides a step-by-step explaination as to how to get it FULLY working.  I can run JanusVM OK but connecting to it?  Nope.  Cannot connect to it so I cannot use it for anything.
>
> praedor
>

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