Re: descriptor published, but router missing from consensus

[Hans Schnehl <torvallenator@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:53:15PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:26:39 +0200 Sebastian Hahn <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >>     Do you know whether anyone else has tor working properly with
> >> openssl 1.0.0 ?  I'm considering downgrading it back to 0.9.8n as a
> >> test to begin eliminating different possible sources of trouble.   
[...]

Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha (git-81b84c0b017267b4) on FreeBSD 8-Stable amd64 
runs a little bumpy (these are, of course, strictly scientific terms) with
openssl 1.0.0.  
 Tor is statically compiled against the most  recent libevent (git)  and 
openssl-1.0.0.
There's higher load to the cpu with less utilized bandwidt than with
previous versions.

Best performance was with Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha (git-81b84c0b017267b4) 
statically compiled against  libevent-1.4.13 (the one in the FreeBSD
ports tree) and  openssl-1.0.0-beta5. Probably will build that again in order
to regain performance. 
Some change in between O*ssl-1.0.0-beta5 and -stable might be the reason.
 Don't know.

> >> (That
> >> is what was working before.)  However, it is a bit of a nuisance to do
> >> that, so I'd rather not do it if it's clear that the openssl version
> >> isn't the source of my troubles.
> >
> >openssl 1.0.0, but we did some testing with the beta versions before
> >and it seemed to work; afaik. Getting your results with a downgraded
> 
[...]
>      I don't actually know how much work it is because I've never tried
> it.  There is now a tool called "ports-mgmt/portdowngrade" in the ports
> tree that I'll need to install first to do the job.  That *shouldn't* be
[...]

portdowngrade works fine, even if not at all new, by talking to cvs-servers. 
You might want to save time and nerves by statically compiling the
tor-binary, though. 
There's a post in or-talk
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2010/msg00011.html ( by grarpamp )
about how to do that.

Just run 'configure' and 'make', _avoid_ 'make install' and drop the
resulting tor-binary from  /src/or/tor to your PATH. (Remove or hide the
old one before, of course) 

I do not intend to start a bikeshed discussion about pro's and con's of
statically compiled binaries, but this saves the nuisance and keeps
the rest of your system away from  testing different library versions
three times a day :)

[...]

HTH

Hans


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