On Tuesday 20 November 2007 19:52:43 you wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:59:24 +0100 Csaba Kiraly <kiraly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > >If you did not specify your IP within the torrc, tor tries to guess it > >based on your hostname ... and this goes wrong if the DNS is wrong! > > As stated in the text you top-posted, if you had read it, I specified > a host+domain name in torrc. That host+domain name combination is updated > at dyndns.org upon system startup and within ten minutes of any change. > I use inadyn to test and update the dyndns.org name server data base. > But you didn't specify your IP in the torrc, so Csaba's point is still a possibility. However, since you didn't delete cached-routers before start-up on either occasion my own *guess* would be that tor is using the old IP stored there, especially since 66.225.42.30 was your address at one point: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mycroftsotherchild+66.225.42.30&btnG=Search Whether it 's a good thing for Tor to just try the last known good address rather than figure it out all over again on the off-chance it may be out of date, I don't know. The tone of your comments below is unfair to Csaba. He was merely offering a friendly (and free) suggestion. No one would ever respond to anyone else on this list if that sort of thing was the default response. > >I think messages related to this are at info level, so you can have a > >look at info level logs. > > > >If you are running on Linux, look at your /etc/hosts file. > > I run FreeBSD 6-STABLE. There is no entry in /etc/hosts because > /etc/nsswitch.conf is set to have the resolver routines check /etc/hosts > before querying name servers. An entry in /etc/hosts for the chosen > host+domain name combination at dyndns.org would defeat the purpose of > using inadyn and the dyndns.org service. Although I have not spent time > to familiarize myself with the tor source code, especially since I have > yet to encounter written documentation of its internal structure, I am > not an idiot. I have also been doing UNIX system administration for two > decades. > > >Check also what you get from DNS lookup for your hostname with > >"nslookup" (both Linux and Windows). > > nslookup is a pain in the butt. I normally use dig. In any case, > as stated in the text that you ignored, the IP address had not changed. > Therefore it had not been altered at dyndns.org. And, yes, I did check. > The address had not changed at dyndns.org, and it had not changed here. > The ADSL modem+router's log showed only the initial PPPoE exchange that > resulted from plugging it in. If the IP address had changed, all of that > would have had to appear in the modem+router's log. > tor has now been up and running for just over five hours since I > stopped and restarted it because of the problem. There has been no > recurrence during this time. > > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * > * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * > * -- a standing army." * > * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * > **********************************************************************
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