Re: Tor directory status

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 10:34:20PM +0100, Marco A. Calamari wrote:
> I noticed some minor quirks on two dirservers
> 
> Just in case they can be useful ...
> 
> host lefkada, port 80
> reachable, advertised on 80 but this port show a placehoder
>  page; it answer on port 9030
> 
> host tor.noreply.org,
>  advertised on port 80, answer on port 9030 too

Yep. These are fine. They're just following the advice at
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerForFirewalledClients
for people who want to advertise ports 80 and 443 without actually
needing local privileges to bind them directly.

In the case of lefkada, it actually offers Tor data if you ask it
correctly (e.g. http://lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu/tor/status/authority)
but it's an ordinary apache too. Setting this up is also described in
the FAQ entry above.

Hope that helps,
--Roger