Re: Ports 443 & 80

[Ben Wilhelm <zorba-tor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, there's still a problem here - Tor thinks it's 
listening on port 9001, so it'll advertise to the directories that it's 
waiting on port 9001. Which obviously won't work all that well if they 
have to connect to port 80.

Here's what the relevant section of my torrc looks like:

## Required: what port to advertise for Tor connections.
ORPort 80
## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised
## in ORPort (e.g. to advertise 443 but bind to 9090), uncomment the
## line below too. You'll need to do ipchains or other port forwarding
## yourself to make this work.
ORListenAddress 0.0.0.0:8080

There's a chunk below it for directory ports also, although I have that 
disabled due to low bandwidth.

-Ben

Nathaniel Dube wrote:
> I just tried something else and I managed to get it working. :-)  The problem 
> was I was over thinking the solution.  I set the ports in torrc back to their 
> defaults ORPort 9001 & DirPort 9030.
>
> Instead, what I did was have the port forwaring on the router level...  
> 443 --> 9001 & 80 --> 9030.  Then I had the router forward ports 9001 & 9030 
> to my private IP on the network.  So now I only need open ports 9001 & 9030 
> on my local software firewall.
>
> This solution is the easiest and most efficient way I can see doing it.  I 
> hope this helps out every one else.  Here's my entire torrc so every one 
> knows what settings I used to get it working.
>
> SocksPort 9050
> SocksListenAddress 127.0.0.1
> DataDirectory /home/tor/.tor
> ControlPort 9051
> Nickname [Left Out]
> ContactInfo [Left Out]
> ORPort 9001
> DirPort 9030
>
> It's with this torrc and hardware router settings I managed to get every thing 
> working.  Thanks every one for all the help.