RE: Which IP to put in mixminiond.conf?

["Evert Meulie" <evert.meulie@telio.no>]

Hi!

Yup, I'm wanting to run a server, and become a part of the project!  :)
(I don't have the programming skills to actively participate in development,
but I recon that running a server is a good thing as well...)  ;)

I'm in the 2nd situation you mention, and have made the mentioned changed.
The server now seems to start correctly. I get 1 entry in
/var/spool/mixminion/log:
Mar 21 23:23:32.142 +0100 [WARN] Configured hostname
'mixminion.poboxes.info' resolves to 66.152.97.243, 66.152.97.243, and
66.152.97.243, but we're publishing the IP 213.151.153.154

This one doesn't make quite sense: according to
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?name=mixminion.poboxes.info&type=A
mixminion.poboxes.info DOES point to 213.151.153.154...   :-?


Regards,
	Evert


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mixminion-dev@freehaven.net
[mailto:owner-mixminion-dev@freehaven.net] On Behalf Of Nick Mathewson
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:39 PM
To: mixminion-dev@freehaven.net
Subject: Re: Which IP to put in mixminiond.conf?

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:57:57PM +0100, Evert Meulie wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just installed mixminion for the first time (0.0.7rc1) and am 
> wondering which IP to put in the .conf file: my internal one (192.168.x.y)
or my external one?

Hi there, and thanks for trying the software!

It depends on how your network is configured; I don't have enough
information to say for sure.

(First, I'm assuming that you want to run a server; if you just want to send
anonymous messages, you don't need to worry about mixminiond.conf at all.)

If your computer is sitting as a gateway between two networks (one
'internal' network, and the public internet), then you should set "IP"
in mixminiond.conf to your external address.

If your computer is sitting *inside* a firewalled network, with the IP
192.168.x.x, and the firewall's public IP is (say) 66.B.C.D, then you should
set "IP" to 66.B.C.D (so that other remailers can connect to you); and you
should set "ListenIP' to 192.168.x.x (so that your computer listens on the
right address).  You will also need to make your firewall will forward port
48099 on the external IP to your computer's internal address, at port 48099
on 192.168.x.x.  Finally, you will need to make sure that "Hostname" is set
to a the hostname of your external IP.

I hope this helps; please email if it wasn't clear.

Yours,
--
Nick Mathewson